Diabaig ( gd, Dìobaig) is a remote coastal fishing and crofting township in

Wester Ross Wester Ross () is an area of the Northwest Highlands of Scotland in the council area of Highland. The area is loosely defined, and has never been used as a formal administrative region in its own right, but is generally regarded as lying to t ...

, in the

Northwest Highlands The Northwest Highlands are located in the northern third of Scotland that is separated from the Grampian Mountains by the Great Glen (Glen More). The region comprises Wester Ross, Assynt, Sutherland and part of Caithness. The Caledonian Canal, wh ...

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. Diabaig lies on the north shore of the sea loch of

Loch Diabaig ''Loch'' () is the Scottish Gaelic, Scots and Irish word for a lake or sea inlet. It is cognate with the Manx lough, Cornish logh, and one of the Welsh words for lake, llwch. In English English and Hiberno-English, the anglicised spelling ...

, an inlet off the north side of

Loch Torridon Loch Torridon ( gd, Loch Thoirbheartan) is a sea loch on the west coast of Scotland in the Northwest Highlands. The loch was created by glacial processes and is in total around 15 miles (25 km) long. It has two sections: Upper Loch Torri ...

, and is in the

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council area. The main part of the settlement is known as ''Lower Diabaig''. ''Upper Diabaig'' is a few houses, about to the east. The village of

Torridon Torridon (Scottish Gaelic: ''Toirbheartan'') is a small village in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. However the name is also applied to the area surrounding the village, particularly the Torridon Hills, mountains to the north of Glen Torri ...

, with its junction with the

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, is located from Diabaig.

Geography

Diabaig is at the end of a minor road, the C1083, which runs along the north side of Loch Torridon, from the village of Torridon. The villages of Alligin Shuas and

Inveralligin Inveralligin ( gd, Inbhir Àiliginn) is a remote crofting township which lies on the north shore of Loch Torridon in Wester Ross and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. ''Inbhir Àiliginn'' means "at the mouth of the River Alligin". Tor ...

lie to the southeast along this road. A footpath continues along the coast from Diabaig, running to the small settlement of Redpoint, near Gairloch.

Filming

Loch Diabaig played the part of Loch Ness in the 1996 film of the same name, in which

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starred.

References

Populated places in Ross and Cromarty Torridon {{Highland-geo-stub