It is most notable for the mansion on it at its north end,[3] which was formerly owned by the Sobieski Stuarts and rented by author and Scottish nationalist Compton Mackenzie from Lord Fraser of Lovat.

The Eilean Aigas estate was owned by the Lovat Frasers until 1995, when it was bought by King Chong Chai, a Malaysian businessman, for around £600,000.

It was purchased by Brendan Clouston, a Canadian businessman, who was formerly president of Tele-Communications Inc.[6] The house was built in 2006, it is a replica of a 19th-century hunting lodge.

During their time here, they adopted the final version of their names,[9] using the surname 'Stuart', and became practising Roman Catholics.

Compton MacKenzie was of Jacobite sympathies and, like the Sobieski Stuarts, a Roman Catholic convert.