Kintyre
Welcome To Kintyre - The Gateway To The Isles
Kintyre is Scotland's only mainland island (well almost), joined only to the mainland by a very short stretch of land between Tarbert (Loch Fyne) 's East Loch and West Loch.
Kintyre is a small but perfectly formed peninsula, made famous by Sir Paul McCartney's song Mull of Kintyre. The Mull Of Kintyre sits at the very bottom of Kintyre, although the scenes in the video for the song were actually shot at Saddell.
Kintyre is the Gateway To The Isles. The isles of Gigha, Islay and Arran are all connected by car and passenger ferries provided by Caledonian MacBrayne. Tayinloan links Kintyre to Gigha, Claonaig (near Skipness) links Kintyre to Arran and Kennacraig (just south of Tarbert) links Kintyre to Islay and Jura.
Tarbert is the recommended location to stop if you are looking to take the ferry to any of the islands off of Kintyre, with the ferry to Islay within 15 minutes drive of Tarbert, Claonaig within 25 minutes drive from Tarbert and the Gigha ferry only 30 minutes drive from Tarbert.
The main towns and villages in Kintyre are Campbeltown and Tarbert, although smaller places are just as popular and attractive such as Carradale, Muasdale and Skipness. Click on our Places section to find out more in our mini tour or Kintyre.
Machrihanish at the southern end of Kintyre is well known for its fantastic championship golf course and the air base that U.S. forces once operated from. Machrihanish has one of the longest runways in the UK!
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Kintyre has a fantastic selection of superb high quality accommodation. Kintyre hotels, self catering, bed and breakfast and camping / touring all offer excellent levels of customer service and comfort.
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As Kintyre and Tarbert in particular are well regarded for the fresh seafood and shellfish landed around the coast you can be assured there are some top places to wine and dine.
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For the size and relative isolation Kintyre towns and villages continue each year to deliver events and festivals that are worthy of attendance celebrating anything from contempory music to seafood.
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Gather a more visual and an audio perspective by viewing and listening to some of the media in this section of the Kintyre web site. Submissions are also welcome.
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With property available from all areas of Kintyre and new and additional properties popping up for sale regularly you can be sure to find the property for you here. For a holiday home or a place to relocate, or even commercial. View our property section.
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There are a great number of things to see and do on Kintyre. Historical buildings of interest including Tarbert and Skipness Castles await discovery, standing stones attract attention and of course there is the new Kintyre Way peninsula walk.
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Kintyre Golf
Kintyre is a popular destination for golfers to play some challenging courses from the small bunker free 9 hole course of Tarbert, to the superb Championship 18 hole links course at Machrihanish. Kintyre golf courses are also close together so you may be able to play more than one in a day, 18 holes before lunch and 18 after.
Golf courses featured on this site include Tarbert, Carradale, Dunaverty and Machrihanish plus a guide to other courses locally or within a short drive or ferry travel to one of the nearby islands.
