What is "tarbert"

Tarbert is a place name 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.

Tarbert may refer to the following places:

Settlements

• Tarbert, Argyll and Bute the town at the northern end of the Kintyre peninsula, Argyll, Scotland
• Tarbert, Jura, on the east coast of the island of Jura, Scotland
• Tarbert, Harris, a ferry port on the Isle of Harris, Scotland
• Tarbert, Kerry, a ferry port on the estuary of the River Shannon in County Kerry, Ireland

Sea lochs

• West Loch Tarbert by Harris in the Western Isles of Scotland
• East Loch Tarbert by Harris in the Western Isles of Scotland
• West Loch Tarbert, Argyll by Tarbert in Argyll, Scotland
• East Loch Tarbert, Argyll by Tarbert in Argyll, Scotland
• Loch Tarbert, Jura by Tarbert on the Isle of Jura

See also:

• Tarbert for description, derivation and other occurrences
• Tarbet (disambiguation)
• Tarbat

The sheriffdom of Tarbert was a constituency in the Parliament of Scotland.

On 28 June 1633 King Charles I, with the consent of the Three Estates, united the sheriffdom of Tarbert with the sheriffdom of Argyll. The last commissioner for Tarbert in the Parliament was Sir Lachlan Maclean of Morvern, who sat from 1628 to 1633.