Tarbert (placename)
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Tarbert is a placename in Scotland, and Ireland. Places named Tarbert are characterised by a narrow strip of land, or isthmus. This can be where two lochs nearly meet, or a causeway out to an island. The name is common between Irish and Scottish Gaelic. The name has its origin in old Norse: Tar båt - tar bat - name "Tarbat" - "Tarbert" since there is no "å" in Gaelic or English. It translates literally as "draw-boat", or "drag boat". It means a place where one could drag a boat from the one loch to another, or from a sea loch to an inland loch. See also portage.
Places named Tarbert include:
[edit] Scotland
- Tarbert, Argyll and Bute the town at the northern end of the Kintyre peninsula, Argyll
- Tarbert, Western Isles, a ferry port on the Isle of Harris
- West Loch Tarbert, an inlet between North and South Harris
- Glen Tarbert, between Loch Linnhe and Loch Sunart
- Tarbert Hill, above the town of West Kilbride
- Tarbert Bay, on the Isle of Canna
- Loch Tarbert, a sea loch on the Isle of Jura
- East Tarbert Bay and West Tarbert Bay on the Isle of Gigha
[edit] Ireland
- Tarbert, Kerry, a ferry port on the estuary of the River Shannon in County Kerry.
