River Shiel

The River Shiel drains the freshwater Loch Shiel into the sea loch, Loch Moidart on the north side of the Ardnamurchan peninsula.

The north end of Loch Shiel is close to Glenfinnan with its famous “Harry Potter” viaduct and the Jacobite monument.

Acharacle village lies at the south end of Loch Shiel, eighteen miles by boat from the north.

The River Shiel flows for nearly three miles through very attractive low ground farming and crofting countryside draining this huge catchment containing some of the wildest and most mountainous of Scottish scenery, the background to so much Scottish history.

The river has many named pools from the Loch Point, through Blacksmiths, Pipers and Burn Mouth to the Gullet into the House Pool, past Grassy Point and Heathery to Cliff, Garrison, Green Bank, Captains, Torr, Columba’s and the Sea Pool which floods and empties with every tide bringing fish over the spectacular waterfall from Loch Moidart, well known through its excellent beach beside Castle Tioram.

Glenfinnan Viaduct

Shiel Bridge