Ardtaraig
Ardtaraig is a hamlet lying at the head of Loch Striven on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, West of Scotland. The hamlet is on the single track B836 road.Places of Interest
Highlights include Striven Hydro-Electric Scheme and Loch Tarsan.
Striven Hydro-Electric Scheme
Power station
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Striven Hydro-Electric Scheme is a small-scale hydro-electric power station, built by the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board and commissioned in 1951.
Loch Tarsan
Reservoir
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loch Tarsan is a freshwater loch and impounding reservoir located 13 kilometres northwest of Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. This three-armed Reservoir extends into both Glen Tarsan and Glen Lean. Loch Tarsan is situated 1½ miles northeast of Ardtaraig.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Colintraive and Rashfield.
Colintraive
Village
Colintraive is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Once the site where cattle were swum across the narrows to the Isle of Bute, the MV Loch Dunvegan — a ferry operated by Caledonian MacBrayne — now provides a link to the island. Colintraive is situated 5 miles south of Ardtaraig.
Rashfield
Hamlet
Rashfield is a hamlet on the Cowal peninsula, situated between Loch Eck and the head of Holy Loch, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The hamlet is on the A815 road and the River Eachaig flows past from Loch Eck to the Holy Loch. Rashfield is situated 6 miles east of Ardtaraig.
Ardtaraig
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: hamlet by of Loch Striven on the Cowal peninsula, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.99755° or 55° 59′ 51″ northLongitude
-5.11604° or 5° 6′ 58″ westOpen location code
9C7PXVXM+2HOpenStreetMap ID
node 4803043759OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletWikidata ID
Q28966519
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In Other Languages
“Ardtaraig” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Ardtaraig”
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