Scotland Guide
Argyll
Kintyre
But for the mile-long isthmus between West Loch Tarbert and the much smaller East Loch Tarbert, the little-visited peninsula of KINTYRE ( 
www.kintyre.org ) – from the Gaelic Ceann Tire, "land's end" – would be an island. During the Wars of the Covenant, the vast majority of the population and property were wiped out by a combination of the 1646 potato blight and the destructive attentions of the earl of Argyll. Kintyre remained a virtual desert until the earl began his policy of transplanting Gaelic-speaking Lowlanders to the region. They probably felt quite at home here, as the southern half of the peninsula lies on the Lowland side of the Highland Boundary Fault.