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Tarbert
Tarbert is a town in the west of Scotland, in the Argyll as well as Bute council area. It is developed around East Loch Tarbert, an inlet of Loch Fyne, and also crosses 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 long background both as a harbour and as a critical point player accessibility to Kintyre and the Inner Hebrides. The name Tarbert is the anglicised kind of the Gaelic word tairbeart, which literally equates as "bring across" and refers to the narrowest strip of land between 2 bodies of water over which products or whole boats can be brought (portage). In cargoes were discharged from vessels berthed in one loch, transported over the isthmus to the various other loch, filled onto vessels berthed there and shipped forward, permitting seafarers to avoid the sail around the Mull of Kintyre. Tarbert was anciently part of the Gaelic overkingdom of Dál Riata as well as safeguarded by 3 castles-- in the town centre, at the head of the West Loch, as well as on the south side of the East Loch. The spoil of the last of these castles, Tarbert Castle, still exists and dominates Tarbert's skyline. Around the year 1098 Magnus Barefoot, King of Norway, had his longship carried across the isthmus at Tarbert to signify his possession of the Western Isles. Regardless of its distinction as a tactical stronghold 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 brought in thousands of vessels to Tarbert.
