Tayinloan
| Tayinloan Gaelic: Taigh an Lòin | |
| Argyllshire | |
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 The Gigha ferry approaching Tayinloan | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NR695458 |
| Location: | 55°39’26"N, 5°39’53"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Tarbert |
| Postcode: | PA29 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Argyll and Bute |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Argyll and Bute |
Tayinloan is a village on the west coast of the Kintyre peninsula of Argyllshire, which has a ferry connection to Ardminish on the Isle of Gigha.
The village has a sub post office, general store and a small hotel, a village hall and a play park. There is a café bar beside the ferry car park.
The only nearby town is Campbeltown, 19 miles to the south: Tarbert is twenty miles to the north.
The A83 road runs through the village, as does a long-distance footpath, the Kintyre Way, a walk of some 106 miles between Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Southend at the Mull of Kintyre.
Killean House near Tayinloan was built in the 1880s by John James Burnet for James Macalister Hall, after the original house burnt down.[1]
Largie Castle used to stand by the village. It was a house designed by the architect Charles Wilson for the Augustus Macdonald|Hon. Augustus Moreton Macdonald and was built in 1857–9. The house was demolished in 1958.
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