Further settlement is found around the small bays at Ardvourlie opposite Seaforth Island which sits in the midst of the loch at the point where inland it turns towards the northeast.
The crofting township of Arivruaich lies beside a further embayment known as Tob Cheann Tarabhaigh.
The loch forms the entire western coast of the relatively isolated Pairc peninsula.
On 22 March 1973 she ran aground on Cleit Rock in the Sound of Gunna (between Tiree and Coll) and was subsequently scrapped.
[2] The name has been given to the new Calmac car ferry which entered service on the Ullapool to Stornoway crossing in 2015.