Tarbert
Tarbert is a town in the west of Scotland, in the Argyll as well as Bute council area. It is built around East Loch Tarbert, an inlet of Loch Fyne, and extends over the isthmus which connects 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 lengthy history both as a harbour and also as a tactical point player access to Kintyre and the Inner Hebrides. The name Tarbert is the anglicised kind of the Gaelic word tairbeart, which literally converts as "carrying across" and describes the narrowest strip of land in between 2 bodies of water over which goods or whole boats can be lugged (portage). In hobbies freights were released from vessels berthed in one loch, hauled over the isthmus to the other loch, filled onto vessels berthed there as well as shipped onward, enabling seafarers to avoid the sail around the Mull of Kintyre. Tarbert was anciently part of the Gaelic overkingdom of Dál Riata and secured by three castles-- in the town centre, at the head of the West Loch, and on the south side of the East Loch. The wreck of the last of these castles, Tarbert Castle, still exists and also dominates Tarbert's skyline. Around the year 1098 Magnus Barefoot, King of Norway, had his longship lugged across the isthmus at Tarbert to indicate his possession 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 duration, as the port developed into a fishing town. At its elevation, the Loch Fyne herring fishery brought in numerous vessels to Tarbert.
