Tarbet
Tarbet is the name of several places in
Scotland, as follows:
*
Tarbet, Argyll and Bute, a village on the side of
Loch Lomond*
Tarbet, Lochaber a hamlet on the shore of
Loch Nevis*
Tarbet, Sutherland, a hamlet on the west coast, near
Handa Island*
Castle Tarbet on the Isle of
Fidra,
North Berwick* The bays of
West Tarbet and
East Tarbet near the
Mull of Gallowayhistorically the word means a place of portage where boats were hauled out of the water and manhandled across a neck of land to be relaunched elsewhere to avoid a long, impassable or dangerous sail around a cape or peninsula. some of these locations had settlements which assimilated the name.
There are also places in Scotland with the similar names of
Tarbert and
Tarbat
