The township is at the island side of the isthmus connecting to the Eye peninsula.

The present church buildings are believed to be medieval, built during two separate construction phases.

This took place in the aftermath of land agitation following the groundbreaking legal victory of the Bernera Riot of 1874 and the Park deer raid of 1887.

It was part of the Crofters War and involved a standoff between the local landless peasantry and the heavily armed marines that were drafted in.

Aignish falls into the catchment of the new Point primary school, Sgoil an Rubha, in Bayble.