Lochaline (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Àlainn) is the main village in the Morvern area of Highland, Scotland.
There is also an infrequent bus service, 507, operated by Shiel Buses - this runs Tuesdays and Thursdays to Fort William in the morning, returning mid-afternoon.
The village's facilities include a grocery shop, post office, petrol station, hotel, restaurant, social club, marina, snack bar and public conveniences.
The village is popular with divers,[citation needed] as it is close to the wrecks of the Sound of Mull, with several charter boats available locally.
[citation needed] Set in trees overlooking the Sound of Mull, Kiel Church with a graveyard is one mile away from Lochaline.
Later, it was at Ardtornish Castle that John of Islay, Lord of the Isles, 6th chief of Clan Donald died in the 1380s and from where his funeral procession sailed through the Sound of Mull to the island of Iona.
The castle was probably abandoned around the end of the seventeenth century, by which time the Campbell Earls of Argyll had captured Ardtornish and the other Morvern estates of the MacLeans.
They were deposited on the shore of a tropical sea on Jurassic shales and limestones in the middle of the Cretaceous period, 93 million years ago, at the same time, the chalk cliffs of Dover were forming.