"[1] Loch Eil Outward Bound railway station and Locheilside railway station are both situated on the northern shore of the loch.
[2] Lochiel was a historic place east of Fassfern on the north shore of Loch Eil.
The place was home to Jacobite chieftain Donald Cameron, of Lochiel.
The earliest known residence of the chiefs of Clan Cameron was on Eilean nan Craobh (The island of the trees) just outside the entrance to Loch Eil.
[1]Loch Eil and Loch Linnhe are joined by narrows at Annat where a paper mill once stood and where there is a now a large timber yard.