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Tarbert

Tarbert is a village 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 crosses the isthmus which links the peninsula of Kintyre to Knapdale and 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 as a tactical point guarding access to Kintyre and the Inner Hebrides. The name Tarbert is the anglicised type of the Gaelic word tairbeart, which actually converts as "bring throughout" and also describes the narrowest strip of land between 2 bodies of water over which products or whole watercrafts can be lugged (portage). In hobbies freights were released from vessels berthed in one loch, hauled over the isthmus to the other loch, packed onto vessels berthed there as well as shipped onward, allowing seafarers to prevent the sail around the Mull of Kintyre. Tarbert was anciently part of the Gaelic overkingdom of Dál Riata as well as secured by 3 castles-- in the village centre, ahead of the West Loch, and on the south side of the East Loch. The destroy of the last of these castles, Tarbert Castle, still exists and also controls Tarbert's skyline. Around the year 1098 Magnus Barefoot, King of Norway, had his longship brought throughout the isthmus at Tarbert to signify his ownership of the Western Isles. In spite of its difference as a calculated garrison during the Middle Ages, Tarbert's socioeconomic prosperity came throughout the Very early Modern period, as the port turned into a fishing town. At its height, the Loch Fyne herring fishery drew in hundreds of vessels to Tarbert.