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Innellan is a village in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland, on the western shore of the Firth of Clyde. It is four miles south of Dunoon.
It was around this time that an American naval base in the nearby Holy Loch was established, providing some aid to the local economy, although being controversial. The base was withdrawn in the 1990s.
The village's most striking landmark from its heyday as a seaside resort - the large Royal Hotel that overlooked the pier - was destroyed by fire in 1981 and the site has yet to be redeveloped. The entrance gates to its former site on Pier Road still show the sign for the hotel. Innellan's pier, which passenger steamers regularly called at whilst the area was booming, was extended in 1901 but finally closed in 1972 in response to reduced usage. After falling into increasing disrepair, it was fully dismantled in the mid-1990s.
Innellan Church was sold in 2023 and is now privately owned. Until recently, locals were still attending it for church services and/or weddings, funerals and even craft fairs - such as quilting exhibitions. The attached hall at the back/side of the hall held various clubs/activities over the years including Sunday Schools, fitness classes and a church-related family group called Alpha that held events and showed films. A children's choir run by Dunoon Grammar School music teacher Ian Davies, his wife Primary Teacher Mary and Mary's mother (and local piano teacher) Peggy Thompson rehearsed in the hall occasionally during the late 1980s/early 1990s. Innellan youth club was set up by local young people in the 1990s and ran for several years in the hall. The Innellan Youth Club was not affiliated with any religion and was simply a sociable club using the church hall - likewise the young people's choir.
A history of Innellan was written by the Rev John Hill, minister of the West Church, in 1950. It is now out of print, and was somewhat preoccupied with religious affairs. More recently, local resident Margaret Hubbard wrote a comprehensive collection of books about significant moments across the village's history. The books are known as "From Scenes Like These, Innellan" and the first of the collection was published in 2010.
The village's strip of shops (which once numbered fourteen) has now been reduced to just the Post Office. There are two pubs in the Village, The Osborne and The Villagers Royal, but other services are provided by the nearby town of Dunoon, which is linked by a bus service.
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