Tarbert
Tarbert is a village in the west of Scotland, in the Argyll and Bute council area. It is built around East Loch Tarbert, an inlet of Loch Fyne, and crosses the isthmus which connects the peninsula of Kintyre to Knapdale and West Loch Tarbert. Tarbert had actually a recorded population of 1,338 in the 2001 Census. Tarbert has a long background both as a harbour and also as a critical point player access to Kintyre and the Inner Hebrides. The name Tarbert is the anglicised form of the Gaelic word tairbeart, which literally translates as "bring throughout" and also describes the narrowest strip of land in between 2 bodies of water over which goods or entire boats can be carried (portage). In hobbies freights were discharged from vessels berthed in one loch, hauled over the isthmus to the various other loch, packed onto vessels berthed there and also shipped onward, allowing seafarers to stay clear of the sail around the Mull of Kintyre. Tarbert was anciently part of the Gaelic overkingdom of Dál Riata and also shielded by three castles-- in the village centre, ahead of the West Loch, and also on the south side of the East Loch. The mess up of the last of these castles, Tarbert Castle, still exists and controls Tarbert's horizon. Around the year 1098 Magnus Barefoot, King of Norway, had his longship lugged across the isthmus at Tarbert to signify his property of the Western Isles. Regardless of its difference as a tactical stronghold during the Middle Ages, Tarbert's socioeconomic prosperity came throughout the Very early Modern period, as the port became a fishing community. At its elevation, the Loch Fyne herring fishery attracted hundreds of vessels to Tarbert.
