Cairndow

Cairndow ; Scottish Gaelic To Càrn Dubh
	Kilmorich Parish Church
Coordinates	56 ° 15 ′ N , 4 ° 56 ′ W Coordinates: 56 ° 15 ′ N , 4 ° 56 ′ W
	Cairndow
	Cairndow
administration
Post town	CAIRNDOW
ZIP code section	PA26
prefix	01499
Part of the country	Scotland
Council area	Argyll and Bute
British Parliament	Argyll and Bute
Scottish Parliament	Dumbarton

Cairndow ( Gaelic : An Càrn Dubh ) is a small town in the Scottish Council Area Argyll and Bute . It is located directly north of the Cowal Peninsula on the shores of the Loch Fyne inlet, about 31 km northwest of Helensburgh and 36 km southeast of Oban .

Cairndow is connected to the trunk road network by the A83 , which connects the Kintyre Peninsula to Campbeltown with the Central Belt . In the 19th century, the Cairndow jetty was regularly approached by ferries from Inveraray . The village developed in the 1950s as part of the first plan to use hydropower. Oysters are grown in Cairndow today.

Attractions

In the vicinity of Cairndow there are two monuments from the highest Scottish monument category A. At the southern end of the village is the neo-Gothic building of Kilmorich Parish Church , which dates from the 1810s and is still used today. To the southwest are the lands of Ardkinglas House . A fortress, in which the Scottish Queen Mary I stayed in July 1563, had probably stood here since 1396 . There are no more traces of this building today. The mansion found here today was probably built in 1795 according to plans by James Playfair .

Individual evidence

^ Information from the Scottish Parliament
↑ ^a ^b Cairndow. Argyll and Bute. In: David Munro, Bruce Gittings: Scotland. An Encyclopedia of Places & Landscapes. Collins et al., Glasgow 2006, ISBN 0-00-472466-6 .
^ Cairndow. In: Francis H. Groome: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical. Volume 1: (A - Coru). Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh et al. 1882, p. 211 .

Web links

Commons : Cairndow - collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry on Cairndow in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland's database

[1] Information from the Scottish Parliament

[scogaz-2] Cairndow. Argyll and Bute. In: David Munro, Bruce Gittings: Scotland. An Encyclopedia of Places & Landscapes. Collins et al., Glasgow 2006, ISBN 0-00-472466-6 .

[3] Cairndow. In: Francis H. Groome: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical. Volume 1: (A - Coru). Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh et al. 1882, p. 211 .