Campbeltown Loch
| Campbeltown Loch Ceann Loch Chille Chiarain |
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Trench Point, Campbeltown Loch, Kintyre. - geograph.org.uk - 61193
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| Location | Kintyre peninsula, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. |
| Coordinates | 55°25′35″N 5°33′54″W / 55.426383°N 5.5650215°WCoordinates: 55°25′35″N 5°33′54″W / 55.426383°N 5.5650215°W, grid reference NR 74519 20503 |
| Type | Sea Loch |
| Basin countries | Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Surface elevation | Sea Level |
| Frozen | No |
Campbeltown Loch (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Chille Chiarain) is a small sea loch near the south of the Kintyre Peninsula facing eastwards towards the Firth of Clyde. The town of Campbeltown, from which it takes its name, is located at its head. The island of Davaar is located in the loch, and can be reach by foot along a natural shingle causeway at low tide. Oddly, while in English the Loch takes its name from Campbeltown, in Gaelic, Campbeltown takes its name from the loch - "Ceann Loch Chille Chiarain".
The loch is immortalised in the folk song of the same name, repopularized by Andy Stewart in the 1960s. In the song (see below) the writer Alan Cameron expresses his desire that the loch be full of whisky. The basis of that ballad is that Campbeltown was originally a centre of whisky distilling but that the price of whisky in Campbeltown itself was too high.
Campbeltown Loch is sung to a march written for the bagpipes, The Glendaruel Highlanders.
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