Castle Tioram – View of Loch Shiel loop from Roshven Road End

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Castle Tioram – View of Loch Shiel loop from Roshven Road End

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Castle Tioram – View of Loch Shiel loop from Roshven Road End

03:22

50.1km

650m

Cycling

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 20, 2026

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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4.71 km

Glenuig Community Shop and Hotel

Highlight • Pub

The shop doesn't keep regular hours. There is a hotel opposite which offers drinks and food.

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12.7 km

Old Bridge Over the River Moidart

Highlight • River

Old bridge over the River Moidart - for cyclists and pedestrians only - next to a narrow car bridge.

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13.4 km

Drynie Wood

Forest

14.3 km

View of the Three Conical Stone Cairns

Highlight • Viewpoint

24.8 km

Castle Tioram

Highlight • Viewpoint

The semi ruined castle sits on Eilean Tioram (the 'Dry Island'). Whilst the interior is closed to the public, you can walk around the exterior, however take care to avoid crossing near to high tide so you can return safely. Situated at the entrance to the Shiel River, this would have been a place of strategic importance and archeologists have found evidence of man here since the Bronze Age. The castle you see here now is thought to date to the 13th Century.

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31.8 km

View of Loch Shiel and Surrounding Mountains

Highlight • Lake

This is not just one Highlight. The whole road is beautiful! It leads along different Lochs and mountains! Very quiet road too

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35.0 km

Picnic Table With View of the Lake

Highlight • Viewpoint

35.8 km

Captain Robertson’s Cairns

Highlight • Monument

If you spend any time at all in the hills above Loch Shiel, you’ll find cairns that mark the places where coffins (and their carriers) once rested on what were once known as coffin roads. These three are marked on Ornance Survey maps as “Captain Robertson’s Cairns.” When Captain WJ Robertson of Kinlochmoidart died in 1869, his body was carried along this route, taken down to the water, and rowed by boat, to be buried on St Finan’s isle.

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These three cairns don’t just represent one human, though, but the countless inhabitants of this landscape who were once carried, mourned, and laid to rest on the burial island in the loch.

Highland parishes once covered huge areas, with relatively few spots consecrated for burial, and bodies were, by necessity, carried long distances over what was (and remains) very difficult terrain. It is no wonder that so many cairns and placenames in this part of the world (for example, Corpach / A’ Chorpaich / field of corpses) commemorate the temporary resting places of mourners and bodies on the coffin roads.

- kddandco.com/2021/12/06/loch-shiel
- her.highland.gov.uk/monument/MHG53547
- canmore.org.uk/site/332480/captain-robertsons-cairns

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43.4 km