Tarbert
Tarbert is a village in Argyll and Bute 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: MSeses, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 1,120 residents
- Description: village in Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Tarbert Loch Fyne” and “Tarbert, Kintyre”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tarbert Castle and Avinagillan standing stone.
Tarbert Castle
Castle
Photo: Rtomandl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tarbert Castle is located on the southern shore of East Loch Tarbert, at Tarbert, Argyll, Scotland, at the north end of Kintyre. Tarbert Castle was a strategic royal stronghold during the Middle Ages and one of three castles at Tarbert.
Avinagillan standing stone
Photo: C Michael Hogan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Avinagillan standing stone is a prehistoric menhir on the Kintyre Peninsula of Scotland. The stone is near the hamlet of Avinagillan.
Stonefield Castle
Hotel
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stonefield Castle is a Scottish baronial manor house near the village of Stonefield, north of Tarbert, Argyll & Bute, Scotland. It was built on the site of an earlier building, known as Barmore, and has been in use as a hotel since 1950.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Portavadie and Torinturk.
Portavadie
Village
Photo: J M Briscoe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Portavadie is a village on the shores of Loch Fyne on the coast of the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, West of Scotland. The Portavadie 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. Portavadie is situated 4 miles east of Tarbert.
Torinturk
Hamlet
Photo: Steven Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Torinturk is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Torinturk is 5 miles from Tarbert. Torinturk comes from the Gaelic for the hill of the boar. This is where the last wild boar in Scotland was killed. Torinturk is situated 4 miles southwest of Tarbert.
Tarbert
- Category: locality
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.8635° or 55° 51′ 49″ northLongitude
-5.4151° or 5° 24′ 54″ westPopulation
1,120Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB TAROpen location code
9C7PVH7M+CXOpenStreetMap ID
node 28323943OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover Tarbert from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Tarbert” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Tarbert”
- Cebuano: “Tarbert, Kintyre”
- Cebuano: “Tarbert”
- Chinese: “塔伯特”
- Chinese: “塔伯特地峽”
- Dutch: “Tarbert”
- French: “Tarbert”
- Galician: “Tarbert”
- German: “Tarbert (Kintyre)”
- German: “Tarbert”
- Irish: “An Tairbeart, Earra-Ghàidheal”
- Irish: “An Tairbeart”
- Irish: “Tairbeart Loch Fìne”
- Japanese: “ターバート”
- 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 Fìne”
- Spanish: “Tarbert (Kintyre)”
- Spanish: “Tarbert”
- Swedish: “Tarbert, Kintyre”
- Swedish: “Tarbert”
- Welsh: “Tarbert, Kintyre”
- Welsh: “Tarbert”
- “An Tairbeart”
- “Tairbeart Loch Fìne”
- “Tarbert”
- “Tarbert Loch Fyne”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Tarbert”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as West Tarbert and Crispie.
Argyll and Bute: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Oban, Campbeltown, Helensburgh, and Isle of Bute.
Explore These Curated Destinations
Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.
About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Tarbert”. Photo: MSeses, CC BY-SA 4.0.