Kintyre

Kintyre is a long peninsula extending south from Argyll towards the coast of Ireland. Its narrow northern neck at Tarbert separates the waters of Loch Fyne from the western sea. On the eastern shore stood Saddell Abbey, a Cistercian foundation associated with Somerled and his descendants. Those descendants included the MacDonalds, Lords of the Isles, whose maritime lordship embraced Kintyre and much of the Hebrides until its forfeiture in 1493.