Tarbert, Harris, Western Isles - Harbour - Dixon postcard, Tobermory pmk 1960

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• Picture / Image:  Tarbert Harbour, Harris, Outer Hebrides 
• Publisher: J Arthur Dixon (3929)
• Postally used: yes
• Stamp:  2&half d red Wilding
• Postmark(s): Tobermory, Isle of Mull 1960 cds
• Sent to:  Lockerbie Road, Dumfries
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Tarbert (Scottish Gaelic: An Tairbeart) is the main community on Harris in the Western Isles of Scotland. The name means "isthmus", "crossing point" or "portage", in Gaelic.[1] The isthmus, between the sea lochs West Loch Tarbert and East Loch Tarbert, joins south Harris to north Harris and Lewis.

Tarbert has a car ferry terminal which operates to Uig on Skye.[2] The short A868 joins the terminal to the north-south A859 road.

Tarbert's Church of Scotland parish church was built in 1862, and is within the parish of Harris.[3] Tarbert also has a Free Presbyterian church.[4] The Very Rev Mackintosh MacKay was minister of the latter in the 1860s.

Tarbert (Scottish Gaelic: An Tairbeart) 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.

All placenames that variously show up as tarbert, tarbat or tarbet in their anglicised form derive from either the Irish or Scottish Gaelic an tairbeart, commonly translated as "the isthmus" today.[2]

Both these words derive from two Old Irish elements, tar "across" and a nominalised form of the verb ber "to carry".[3] The /ɾ/ in tar was assimilated to /ɾʲ/ as a result of being next to the historically palatal /bʲ/ in Old Irish, causing the change in spelling from tar to tair-. So the literal translation would be an "across-carrying". The reason for this is that all tarberts are in fact located at or near old portage sites.

In English language spellings the first syllable "tar" has generally remained constant but the second syllable "bert" has variously been spelled as "bart", "bert" "bat", "bad" etc.[4]

Scotland

Tarbert, Jura, on Jura

Tarbert, Kintyre the town at the northern end of the Kintyre peninsula, Argyll

Tarbert, Western Isles, a ferry port on Harris

Loch Tarbert, Jura, on the west coast of the island of Jura

West Loch Tarbert, an inlet between North and South Harris

East Loch Tarbert also by Harris in the Western Isles of Scotland

West Loch Tarbert, Argyll in Argyll

East Loch Tarbert, Argyll also in Argyll

Glen Tarbert, between Loch Linnhe and Loch Sunart

Tarbert Hill, above the town of West Kilbride

Tarbert Bay, on the island of Canna

Loch Tarbert, a sea loch on the island of Jura

East Tarbert Bay and West Tarbert Bay on the Isle of Gigha

East Tarbert Bay and West Tarbert Bay on the Mull of Galloway

Ireland

Tarbert, County Kerry, a ferry port on the estuary of the River Shannon in County Kerry.

Tarbert, County Laois, a townland in County Laois