Attadale was recently accredited by Wildlife Estates Scotland for its reintroduction of red squirrels, its involvement in the River Carron restoration and a long-term Forestry Plan which has removed all non-native woodland and will replace it with a mix of native Scots pine, birch, hazel, aspen and willow. There will be over 550 acres of broadleaf trees planted, that’s almost half a million trees.

The Macdonald family at New Kelso have been farming on the Black Isle in the Scottish Highlands since 1927, and on the west coast since 1840.

Ewan and Shaun are the two brothers currently in charge of the farming enterprise. We have around 2500 sheep and 250 cattle, and grow malting barley, wheat and oil seed rape. We diversified into holiday homes in 2005 having renovated two cottages on the home farm.

The source of the Carron is the watershed where the westward flowing burns run into Loch Sgabhain on Glencarron Estate. 

Anglers can enjoy salmon, brown and sea trout fishing on the Carron and brown trout fishing in the eastward flowing River Meig (the headwater of the River Conon), as well as loch fishing on three lochs.  The Estate recently planted some 370,000 native trees to create a biodiversity corridor east to west and to help moderate flood run-off into the Carron.

The Arineckaig Fishings, which encompass approximately two miles of mainly double bank fishing, are jointly owned by the Nicholl family of Arineckaig Lodge and the Macphersons of Attadale.

The beat adjoins New Kelso to the west and runs up to the top of the Narrows of Loch Dughaill.