Arrochar; is a village located near the head of Loch Long, on the Cowal peninsula in Argyll as well as Bute, Scottish Highlands. The town is within the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Forest. Historically in Dunbartonshire, it is ignored by a team of hills called the Arrochar Alps, as well as in particular by the distinctive rough summit of the Cobbler. It takes pleasure in great interactions as it is at the junction of the A83 and also A814 roads and also is served by Arrochar and also Tarbet train station. In addition the A82 road runs through Tarbet 2 miles to the eastern. For over five centuries this location, the feudal barony of Arrochar, was held by the principals of Clan MacFarlane and before them by their ancestors the barons of Arrochar. The family is Celtic in the male line as well as native to their Highland homeland of tall heights as well as deep lochs just above the waistline of Scotland. The negotiation was a crucial target for Viking raiders that took their watercrafts 2 miles overland to Tarbet to attack the unsafe inland settlements at Loch Lomond before their defeat in 1263 at the battle of Largs. The western end of Arrochar marks the typical boundary of Argyllshire and Dunbartonshire, and also this remained the instance under local government reorganisation in 1975. However, in 1996 the boundaries of Argyll as well as Bute as well as West Dunbartonshire were significantly redrawn, bringing the entire area into Argyll and also Bute.