Tarbert
Tarbert is a town in the west of Scotland, in the Argyll as well as Bute council location. It is built around East Loch Tarbert, an inlet of Loch Fyne, and also extends over the isthmus which connects the peninsula of Kintyre to Knapdale as well as West Loch Tarbert. Tarbert had actually a recorded population of 1,338 in the 2001 Census. Tarbert has a lengthy history both as a harbour and also as a strategic point player accessibility to Kintyre and also the Inner Hebrides. The name Tarbert is the anglicised kind of the Gaelic word tairbeart, which essentially translates as "lugging across" and describes the narrowest strip of land between two bodies of water over which items or whole boats can be lugged (portage). In 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 forward, allowing seafarers to stay clear of the sail around the Mull of Kintyre. Tarbert was anciently part of the Gaelic overkingdom of Dál Riata and protected by 3 castles-- in the town centre, at the head of the West Loch, and on the south side of the East Loch. The ruin of the last of these castles, Tarbert Castle, still exists and dominates Tarbert's horizon. Around the year 1098 Magnus Barefoot, King of Norway, had his longship brought across the isthmus at Tarbert to symbolize his property of the Western Isles. Despite its distinction as a strategic fortress during the Middle Ages, Tarbert's socioeconomic prosperity came throughout the Early Modern period, as the port became a fishing community. At its elevation, the Loch Fyne herring fishery drew in thousands of vessels to Tarbert.