Lochgilphead is a community as well as former burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK, with a population of around 2,300 people. It is the administrative centre of Argyll and also Bute. The town exists at the end of Loch Gilp (a branch of Loch Fyne) and rests on the financial institutions of the Crinan Canal. Lochgilphead sits on the A83, with Ardrishaig 2 miles (3 km) to the south and also Inveraray 24 miles (39 km) to the north-east; Oban exists 37 miles (60 kilometres) north on the A816. The council is based at Kilmory Castle, around which is found a woodland park and also an Iron Age ft. Forestry and Land Scotland likewise have an office there. Lochgilphead's facilities include a pool, sporting activities centre, fishing deal with shop, 3 banks, Co-op Food grocery store, two petrol stations, three homewear and equipment shops, a Renault car dealership, a neighborhood healthcare facility run by the neighborhood General practitioners (with an A&E division and also a psychiatric hospital), a 9-hole fairway, bowling club, a hydrotherapy pool, a regional land fill site at Dunchologan as well as Lochgilphead High School. The town is residence to shinty group Kilmory Camanachd and football group, Lochgilphead Red Star.