Tarbert
Tarbert is a village in the west of Scotland, in the Argyll and Bute council area. It is developed around East Loch Tarbert, an inlet of Loch Fyne, and also extends over 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 lengthy history both as a harbour and also as a calculated point guarding access to Kintyre and also the Inner Hebrides. The name Tarbert is the anglicised kind of the Gaelic word tairbeart, which literally translates as "carrying throughout" as well as describes the narrowest strip of land between 2 bodies of water over which items or entire watercrafts can be lugged (portage). In hobbies freights were discharged from vessels berthed in one loch, carried over the isthmus to the various other loch, loaded onto vessels berthed there and also shipped onward, allowing seafarers to avoid the sail around the Mull of Kintyre. Tarbert was anciently part of the Gaelic overkingdom of Dál Riata as well as protected by 3 castles-- in the village centre, ahead of the West Loch, as well as on the south side of the East Loch. The destroy of the last of these castles, Tarbert Castle, still exists and dominates Tarbert's sky line. Around the year 1098 Magnus Barefoot, King of Norway, had his longship carried throughout the isthmus at Tarbert to represent his ownership of the Western Isles. In spite of its difference as a strategic stronghold during the Middle Ages, Tarbert's socioeconomic prosperity came during the Early Modern period, as the port became an angling community. At its height, the Loch Fyne herring fishery attracted thousands of vessels to Tarbert.
