Inverailort House

Having been a shooting lodge for MacDonald of Clanranald, Inverailort House was enlarged in 1828 by Major General Sir Alexander Cameron.

Most of the glass plates were lost or destroyed when the military took over the house during World War II, but the surviving photographs have been published in a book.

Christian Cameron is said to have died of a broken heart after much of the contents of the house were badly damaged by the army when they emptied it.

Here British agents were taught ruthless techniques of intelligence gathering, sabotage and survival later directly adopted by the American CIA.

The army moved out of the house on 20 August 1942 and it was then taken over by the Royal Navy when it became HMS Lochailort and used for the training of naval cadet ratings to be officers on small craft used by Combined Operations.