the best-preserved brochs (Dun Telve and Dun Troddan) on mainland Scotland, located in Glen Beag. Amenities The community's only pub is the Glenelg Inn. This stands on the site of the earlier Glenelg Hotel, a fine highland hotel with marble flooring which caught fire in 1946 and had to be demolished. There is also a village shop, an organic market garden/croft and associated cafe, in Glen Beag. There is also a seasonal cafe in the Glenelg Village Hall in Kirkton and local businesses offering local services including bicycle hire and repair. Glenelg Parish Church of Scotland has an 18th-century core. It under went repairs from 1821 to 1830, the was interior remodelled in 1863 and again in 1929. There is an 18th-century bird-cage bellcote to the west gable. Glenelg Amateur Football Club Glenelg Amateur Football Club is known to locals by their nickname of "The Duffers", were re-formed in 2011 by Grant MacLeod. In 2019, Glenelg FC won the Clan Donald Cup, their first trophy in over 43 years. Etymology Although the name nowadays refers to the whole district, it is likely that it originally referred only to the glen containing the brochs. The specific element of the name (Eilg) is found elsewhere, such as in Elgin (Gaelic Eilginn) and is generally accepted as being a kenning for Ireland. Other such names include Banavie, Banff, Atholl, Lochearn, Auldearn, and show Gaelic settlers using the same migrant naming practice as gives us placenames such as New Caledonia and New York. The name is unusual in that it is a palindrome. Twinning with Mars Glenelg was officially twinned with Glenelg, Mars, on 20 October 2012. A palindromic name was chosen by NASA because the rover Curiosity would visit the site twice. Sandaig and Camusfeàrna The author Gavin Maxwell's retreat at Sandaig (which he called Camusfeàrna, "the bay of the alders", in his book Ring of Bright Water) is within the Glenelg community area around south of Kirkton of Glenelg. The house had previously been a smallholding and home for the part-time lighthouse keeper of the Sandaig Lighthouse. The Sandaig Light formerly on Little Sandaig was built in 1910 by Charles Alexander Stevenson (cousin of the novelist Robert Louis Stevenson) for the Northern Lighthouse Board. In 2002 the tower was restored and moved to the community-owned Glenelg Ferry Terminal where it is now a feature. The eponymous Sandaig Islands are a small group