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Campbeltown Loch (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Chille Chiarain) is a small sea loch near the south of the Kintyre Peninsula facing eastwards towards the Firth of Clyde. The town of Campbeltown, from which it takes its name, is located at its head. The island of Davaar is located in the loch, and can be reach by foot along a natural shingle causeway at ...
Campbeltown (/ ˈ k æ m b əl t ən / ⓘ; Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Loch Chille Chiarain or Ceann Locha) is a town and former royal burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It lies by Campbeltown Loch on the Kintyre Peninsula. Campbeltown became an important centre for Scotch whisky, and a busy fishing port.
Island Davaar [4] or Davaar Island (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Dà Bhàrr) is located at the mouth of Campbeltown Loch off the east coast of Kintyre Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland. It is a tidal island, linked to the mainland by a natural shingle causeway called the Doìrlinn near Campbeltown at low tide. The crossing can be made ...
Lochend Castle (Scottish Gaelic: Caislen Cean Loch, Anglicised Castle of the loch end), was a castle located at Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute. The castle once stood at the top of Castlehill, Campbeltown and was once occupied by Clan MacDonald of Dunnyveg. The castle was rebuilt by Archibald Campbell, 7th Earl of Argyll, around 1609. [1]
Crosshill Loch is an impounding reservoir, located 1 kilometre south of the centre of Campbeltown, and is the source of water for the town's Whisky Distilleries: Springbank, Glengyle and Glen Scotia. [1] The earthen dam is 14.3 metres high. Records show the dam was constructed prior to 1868.
Previously stationed at Poolbeg, it was only used as a boarding boat at Campbeltown although it was maintained as a second lifeboat. [17] 1912–1929 620 – William MacPherson: Watson: 1937 Campbeltown's first motor lifeboat. After Campbeltown it was stationed at Aldeburgh and Pwllheli until 1940 and then used as a yacht until 1999. [18] [19 ...
A keep was built in 1490 by King James IV, for the housing of a garrison to subdue the MacDonalds. [2]Further fortification works were undertaken by King James V, [3] during an expedition to the Isles in 1536 against the Macdonalds and other turbulent clans.
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