Tarbert

Tarbert is a village in on the west coast of Scotland. An Tairbeart is a Gaelic term meaning "carry across", indicating an isthmus where small boats could be portaged from one body of water to another.
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  • Type: Village with 1,120 residents
  • Description: village in Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “An Tairbeart”, “Tairbeart Loch Fìn”, “Tarbert Loch Fyne”, and “Tarbert, Kintyre”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tarbert Castle and Avinagillan standing stone.

Castle
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is located on the southern shore of East Loch Tarbert, at Tarbert, , , at the north end of . was a strategic royal stronghold during the Middle Ages and one of three castles at Tarbert.

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The is a prehistoric menhir on the Kintyre Peninsula of . The stone is near the hamlet of Avinagillan.

Church
is a Category B listed building in Tarbert, Kintyre, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Portavadie and Torinturk.

Village
Photo: J M Briscoe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village on the shores of Loch Fyne on the coast of the , in , West of . The complex was built in 1975 by the then Scottish Office for the purpose of constructing concrete platforms for extraction of oil from the North Sea. is situated 4 miles east of Tarbert.

Hamlet
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is a village in , Scotland. is 5 miles from Tarbert. comes from the Gaelic for the hill of the boar. This is where the last wild boar in Scotland was killed. is situated 4 miles southwest of Tarbert.

Tarbert

Latitude
55.8635° or 55° 51′ 49″ north
Longitude
-5.4151° or 5° 24′ 54″ west
Population
1,120
Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB TAR
Open location code
9C7PVH7M+CX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 28323943
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2636241
Wiki­data ID
Q3130032
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Tarbert” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Tarbert”
  • Breton: “An Tairbeart”
  • Breton: “Tairbeart Loch Fìn”
  • Cebuano: “Tarbert, Kintyre”
  • Cebuano: “Tarbert”
  • Chinese: “塔伯特”
  • Chinese: “塔伯特地峽”
  • Cornish: “An Tairbeart”
  • Cornish: “Tairbeart Loch Fìn”
  • Dutch: “Tarbert”
  • French: “Tarbert”
  • Galician: “Tarbert”
  • German: “Tarbert (Kintyre)”
  • German: “Tarbert”
  • Irish: “An Tairbeart, Earra-Ghàidheal”
  • Irish: “An Tairbeart”
  • Irish: “Tairbeart Loch Fìn”
  • Irish: “Tairbeart Loch Fìne”
  • Japanese: “ターバート”
  • Manx: “An Tairbeart”
  • Manx: “Tairbeart Loch Fìn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarbert”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tarbert”
  • Norwegian: “Tarbert”
  • Persian: “تاربرت، آرگایل و بوت”
  • Persian: “تاربرت”
  • Polish: “Tarbert, Argyll and Bute”
  • Polish: “Tarbert”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Tairbeart”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tairbeart Loch Fìn”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tairbeart Loch Fìne”
  • Spanish: “Tarbert (Kintyre)”
  • Spanish: “Tarbert”
  • Swedish: “Tarbert, Kintyre”
  • Swedish: “Tarbert”
  • Welsh: “An Tairbeart”
  • Welsh: “Tairbeart Loch Fìn”
  • Welsh: “Tarbert, Kintyre”
  • “An Tairbeart”
  • “Tarbert”
  • “Tarbert Loch Fyne - Tairbeart Loch Fìn”

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