Seasonal Hospitality Couple Wanted – Scottish Highlands
Front of House and Kitchen Prep – Salary £26,500 pro rata, 40 hours/weekArdtornish are looking for a friendly, reliable and hardworking front of house assistant to join us at our newest enterprise, The Coal Shed Café, with an immediate start until the end of November 2026. The Coal Shed is a newly established, fifty cover "estate to plate" café, [...]
Faith Raven 1930-2026; A tribute by Angus Robertson
Faith Raven was born in London on the 31st of July 1930. She was barely a month old when her parents, Owen and Emmeline Hugh Smith brought her and her older sister, Fortune, for their first introduction to Morvern and their newly acquired Ardtornish Estate. A place which was destined to be a corner stone of huge significance throughout [...]
Where the Road Ends and the Adventure Begins
An astonishing 35,000 domestic vehicles make the journey to The Isle of Mull each year aboard The Lochinvar, Calmac’s ferry servicing the Lochaline–Fishnish route. Many of those travellers, we imagine, pass by the modest ‘Aird Toirinis’ sign at the end of our road, continue along the winding high road towards the ferry, and look out at the scattering of [...]
The Lost Lands of Argyll by Hugh Raven
I have lived in Argyll, on and off, for almost all of my rather long life. Or at least in the lost lands of Argyll, the bit that was shuffled out of the local authority in the early 1970s. My presence was far more off than on for almost four decades, so my bird observations were very seasonal. However, [...]
Ardtornish Launches Inaugural Impact Report
Ardtornish has published its first annual Impact Report as part of a commitment to greater transparency and accountability. As a large landholding on the Morvern peninsula, the estate recognises that its decisions can have a disproportionate influence on the local economy, community, environment and housing. The Impact Report is designed to measure how the business interacts with its stakeholders [...]
Summer Newsletter 2025
Welcome Hugh Raven Greetings from a green and well-watered Ardtornish – where in the first half-year we have enjoyed a full 12 months of seasons. You can read more about storms and drought below. For me the bit that sticks especially in my memory is the eight-week warm and dry April and May – much of it [...]
