Kyle of Lochalsh is the last stop before the Skye bridge. Kyle from "caol" meaning "narrow". The bridge to Kyleakin has a foot on the island famed for Gavin Maxwell's otter story "Ring of Bright Water". Plockton and Dornie are on the mainland near Kyle. There is now a traditional music centre at the local high schoolm see www.musicplockton.org/

I helped thatch a cottage in Dornie with Scottish Conservation Projects (later absorbed by Conservation Volunteers. And I helped a friend sail a dinghy on Loch Long - the one you refer to, in Rosshire. Plockton and Dornie aren't mountainous, but nearby areas of Kintail (Ceann tSaile)are indeed. ... I didnt realise I've been at Glen Elchaig, but I hiked to the Falls of Glomach with the friend who owned the dinghy, so I suppose I was (a trip remembered more than 15 years later): http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/kintail/Glenelchaig.shtml
...oh I am getting nostalgic ...

An area rich in bardic tradion ...

a reference to the bard Mac Mhurchaidh Mhic Iain Ruaidh of Glenelchaig: http://digital.nls.uk/early-gaelic-book-collections/pageturner.cfm?id=76890560&mode=transcription
As you know, one thing leads to another, and I have just read of an American variant of the song Dean Cadalan Samhach attributed to Iain MacMhurchaidh aka John MacRae who emigrated from Kintail around the time of the American revolution. http://www.academia.edu/12954975/Unsettling_Iain_mac_Mhurchaidh_s_slumber_The_Carolina_Lullaby_authorship_and_the_influence_of_print_media_on_Gaelic_oral_tradition

I was able to locate Killilan on Bing maps page.

[Keberoxu, can you hear Mary O'Hara singing Cró Chinn tSaile on youtube? I can't access the Topic records videos. I've heard other people sing that song, for instance Margaret Stewart and I know the first verse and the chorus, but I think you like Mary O'Hara's singing]