Tarbert
Tarbert is a town in the west of Scotland, in the Argyll and Bute council location. It is constructed around East Loch Tarbert, an inlet of Loch Fyne, as well as crosses the isthmus which links 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 background both as a harbour and as a strategic point guarding accessibility to Kintyre as well as the Inner Hebrides. The name Tarbert is the anglicised form of the Gaelic word tairbeart, which actually equates as "carrying across" and describes the narrowest strip of land in between 2 bodies of water over which items or entire boats can be lugged (portage). In cargoes were released from vessels berthed in one loch, carried over the isthmus to the various other loch, loaded onto vessels berthed there as well as shipped onward, allowing seafarers to avoid the sail around the Mull of Kintyre. Tarbert was anciently part of the Gaelic overkingdom of Dál Riata and 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 sky line. Around the year 1098 Magnus Barefoot, King of Norway, had his longship brought across the isthmus at Tarbert to signify his possession of the Western Isles. Despite its difference as a critical garrison throughout the Middle Ages, Tarbert's socioeconomic success came throughout the Very early Modern duration, as the port developed into an angling town. At its height, the Loch Fyne herring fishery attracted numerous vessels to Tarbert.
