West Loch Tarbert, Argyll
- West Loch Tarbert, Argyll
West Loch Tarbert, Argyll is a long and narrow sea loch on the western side of the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland.
The head of the loch lies near the village of Tarbert and it reaches the open sea at Ardpatrick Point some convert|15|km|mi distant. [ [http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/features/featurefirst4041.html "West Loch Tarbert"] Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 13 September 2008.]
Around the year 1093 Magnus Barefoot, King of Norway, had his longship dragged across the isthmus at Tarbert between West Loch Tarbert and East Loch Tarbert as part of a campaign to increase his possessions in the Hebrides. He made an arrangement with King Malcolm III of Scotland that he could take possession of land on the west coast around which a ship could sail. Magnus declared that Kintyre had "better land than the best of the Hebrides", and by taking command of his ship's tiller and "sailing" across the isthmus he was able to claim the entire peninsula, which remained under Norse rule for more than a dozen years as a result. [Murray, W.H. (1977) "The Companion Guide to the West Highlands of Scotland." London. Collins. p. 100.]
In the past a ferry used to run from West Tarbert near the head of the loch to the island of Gigha.
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