Glenachulish
Glenachulish is a hamlet and glen which lie close to the village of Ballachulish in the Scottish Highlands.Places of Interest
Highlights include Ballachulish Bridge and St Bride’s Church, Onich.
Ballachulish Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Ballachulish Bridge is a road bridge in the West Highlands of Scotland which carries the A82 road that runs from Glasgow to Inverness. It crosses the narrows between Loch Leven and Loch Linnhe, linking the villages of South Ballachulish and North Ballachulish.
St Bride’s Church, Onich
Church
St Bride's Church is an Episcopal parish church in North Ballachulish in the Scottish Highlands. The church was built in 1874 and is notable for the Arts and Crafts movement inspired features of the church interior, including distinctive stained-glass windows, decorative floor tiles and a painted vestry screen.
Eilean Munde
Island
Photo: David Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eilean Munde is an uninhabited island in Loch Leven, close to Ballachulish. It is the site of a chapel built by St. Fintan Mundus, who travelled here from Iona in the 7th century. Eilean Munde is situated 2½ miles east of Glenachulish.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include North Ballachulish and Onich.
Onich
Village
Photo: Alan Morrison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Onich, also spelled Ounich, is a village in the historic county of Inverness-shire on the east shore of Loch Linnhe, Scotland and, together with North Ballachulish at the entrance to Loch Leven, forms Nether Lochaber. Onich is situated 2 miles northwest of Glenachulish.
Beinn a’ Bheithir
Locality
Photo: Grinner, Public domain.
Beinn a' Bheithir is a mountain south of Ballachulish and Loch Leven in the Scottish Highlands. It has two Munro summits: Sgorr Dhearg at 1,024 m and Sgorr Dhonuill at 1,001 m. Beinn a’ Bheithir is situated 2 miles south of Glenachulish.
Glenachulish
- Type: Village with 102 residents
- Description: human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.68208° or 56° 40′ 56″ northLongitude
-5.19061° or 5° 11′ 26″ westPopulation
102Open location code
9C8PMRJ5+RQOpenStreetMap ID
node 5390818715OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q5568123
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Scottish Gaelic—“Glenachulish” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Glenachulish”
- Irish: “Gleann a‘ Chaolais”
- Irish: “Gleann a’ Chaolais”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gleann a‘ Chaolais”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gleann a’ Chaolais”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Glenachulish”
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Notable Places Nearby
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