Arrochar; is a town situated near the head of Loch Long, on the Cowal peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands. The town is within the Loch Lomond and also The Trossachs National Park. Historically in Dunbartonshire, it is neglected by a group of hills called the Arrochar Alps, and also specifically by the unique rough top of the Cobbler. It appreciates great communications as it is at the joint of the A83 and A814 roadways and is offered by Arrochar and also Tarbet railway station. Additionally the A82 roadway goes through Tarbet 2 miles to the eastern. For over five centuries this area, the feudal barony of Arrochar, was held by the principals of Clan MacFarlane and before them by their ancestors the barons of Arrochar. The family is Celtic in the male line and belonging to their Highland homeland of high tops as well as deep lochs just over the waistline of Scotland. The negotiation was a key target for Viking raiders that took their boats 2 miles overland to Tarbet to strike the unsafe inland settlements at Loch Lomond prior to their defeat in 1263 at the battle of Largs. The western end of Arrochar marks the typical boundary of Argyllshire and also Dunbartonshire, and this stayed the case under local government reorganisation in 1975. However, in 1996 the limits of Argyll as well as Bute and West Dunbartonshire were considerably redrawn, bringing the entire area right into Argyll and also Bute.