It is within the historic county of Dunbartonshire, and since 1996 it has been part of the Argyll and Bute council area.

Inversnaid is roughly opposite on the east shore, there is a pedestrian ferry.

The name of this watercourse is a curious back-formation, since Inveruglas means "the mouth of the Douglas".

[2] The Loch Lomond and Cowal Way starts and finishes at Inveruglas.

This 92-kilometre (57-mile) waymarked footpath terminates at Portavadie in the Cowal Peninsula, on the east shore of Loch Fyne.