Arrochar; is a town situated near the head of Loch Long, on the Cowal peninsula in Argyll as well as Bute, Scottish Highlands. The village is within the Loch Lomond as well as The Trossachs National Forest. Historically in Dunbartonshire, it is ignored by a group of mountains called the Arrochar Alps, as well as particularly by the unique rough top of the Cobbler. It enjoys excellent communications as it goes to the junction of the A83 and also A814 roadways and also is served by Arrochar and Tarbet train station. Furthermore the A82 road runs through Tarbet 2 miles to the east. For over five centuries this area, the feudal barony of Arrochar, was held by the principals of Clan MacFarlane and also prior to them by their forefathers the barons of Arrochar. The family members is Celtic in the male line and native to their Highland homeland of tall optimals and deep lochs simply above the waist of Scotland. The negotiation was an essential target for Viking raiders who took their watercrafts 2 miles overland to Tarbet to assault the unguarded inland negotiations at Loch Lomond before their defeat in 1263 at the battle of Largs. The western end of Arrochar notes the traditional limit of Argyllshire and Dunbartonshire, as well as this remained the instance under local government reorganisation in 1975. Nevertheless, in 1996 the borders of Argyll as well as Bute and also West Dunbartonshire were substantially redrawn, bringing the entire area into Argyll and Bute.