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Tarbert is a town in the west of Scotland, in the Argyll and Bute council area. It is constructed around East Loch Tarbert, an inlet of Loch Fyne, and extends over the isthmus which connects the peninsula of Kintyre to Knapdale as well as West Loch Tarbert. Tarbert had actually a recorded population of 1,338 in the 2001 Census. Tarbert has a long background both as a harbour and also as a tactical point guarding access to Kintyre as well as the Inner Hebrides. The name Tarbert is the anglicised form of the Gaelic word tairbeart, which essentially converts as “lugging across” and also describes the narrowest strip of land in between two bodies of water over which goods or entire watercrafts can be carried (portage). In past times freights were discharged from vessels berthed in one loch, transported over the isthmus to the other loch, packed onto vessels berthed there and also delivered forward, allowing seafarers to avoid the sail around the Mull of Kintyre. Tarbert was anciently part of the Gaelic overkingdom of Dál Riata as well as safeguarded by 3 castles– in the village centre, ahead of the West Loch, and also on the south side of the East Loch. The spoil of the last of these castles, Tarbert Castle, still exists and also controls Tarbert’s skyline. Around the year 1098 Magnus Barefoot, King of Norway, had his longship lugged across the isthmus at Tarbert to symbolize his possession of the Western Isles. In spite of its difference as a strategic stronghold during the Middle Ages, Tarbert’s socioeconomic prosperity came during the Early Modern duration, as the port became a fishing town. At its height, the Loch Fyne herring fishery brought in hundreds of vessels to Tarbert.