Tarbert
Tarbert is a town in the west of Scotland, in the Argyll and Bute council area. It is developed around East Loch Tarbert, an inlet of Loch Fyne, as well as crosses the isthmus which links the peninsula of Kintyre to Knapdale and also West Loch Tarbert. Tarbert had a recorded population of 1,338 in the 2001 Census. Tarbert has a long history both as a harbour and also as a strategic point player accessibility to Kintyre and also the Inner Hebrides. The name Tarbert is the anglicised kind of the Gaelic word tairbeart, which actually converts as "carrying across" as well as refers to the narrowest strip of land between 2 bodies of water over which items or whole boats can be carried (portage). In hobbies cargoes were released from vessels berthed in one loch, carried over the isthmus to the other loch, loaded onto vessels berthed there and also delivered onward, enabling seafarers to stay clear of the sail around the Mull of Kintyre. Tarbert was anciently part of the Gaelic overkingdom of Dál Riata as well as protected by three castles-- in the town centre, at the head of the West Loch, and 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 sky line. Around the year 1098 Magnus Barefoot, King of Norway, had his longship brought throughout the isthmus at Tarbert to signify his belongings of the Western Isles. Regardless of its distinction as a critical garrison during the Middle Ages, Tarbert's socioeconomic prosperity came during the Early Modern period, as the port became an angling town. At its height, the Loch Fyne herring fishery drew in thousands of vessels to Tarbert.
