The peninsula is around 5.5 miles (8.9 km) long, and is aligned along a north-east to south-west orientation, in common with much of the landform of coastal Argyll.

There are two main settlements on Craignish, Ardfern on the south coast, and the modern village of Craobh Haven, established in 1983 as a holiday resort and marina, on the north.

One such site is Dunan Aula, a cist said to commemorate a Viking prince so-named, who fell in battle against the native Scots.

[citation needed] The early 19th century paddle steamer PS Comet sank off Craignish Point on 13 December 1820.

[citation needed] Naomi Mitchison wrote of a visit to Craignish with her family: "We are up here in an incredibly beautiful place thirty miles from a station, all very Celtic, islands and sunsets and sea lochs of blue paint.

The gentry are rather alarming - those narrow cruel Highland faces, mouths and eyes a little twisted and arrogant and something too delicate and inbred about their hands and skin.