It consists of about forty houses, clustered around Loch a' Bhaile, about 1 mile (1.5 kilometres) from the A858 road between Callanish and Carloway.

[1] Tolsta Chaolais is in the parish of Uig,[2] and has a building as a place of worship for all denominations.

[1] In 1979 the village was photographed by Fay Godwin as part of a landscape photography project funded by the Arts Council of Great Britain.

One of Godwin's photographs of Tolsta Chaolais was published in her 1985 book of rural landscapes, Land.

[3] In 2013, the village was the location of much of the filming for the CBeebies children's television programme Katie Morag.