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Cowal is a peninsula

Peninsula

A peninsula is a piece of Landform that is nearly surrounded by water but connected to mainland via an isthmus. Word origin: Latin paeninsula : paene, almost + insula, island....
in Argyll and Bute

Argyll and Bute

Argyll and Bute is both one of 32 Council areas of Scotland; and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland in Scotland. The administrative centre for the council area is located in Lochgilphead....
in the Scottish

Scotland

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Highlands

Scottish Highlands

The Scottish Highlands include the rugged and mountainous regions of Scotland north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, although the exact boundaries are not clearly defined, particularly to the east....
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Cowal is a peninsula

Peninsula

Argyll and Bute

Scotland

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Highlands

Scottish Highlands

Mountain

A mountain is a landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area usually in the form of a peak. A mountain is generally steeper than a hill....
ous Argyll Forest Park. Cowal is separated from the Kintyre

Kintyre

Kintyre is a peninsula in western Scotland, in the south-west of Argyll and Bute. The region stretches approximately 30 miles , from the Mull of Kintyre in the south, to East Loch Tarbert, Kintyre in the north....
peninsula to the west by Loch Fyne

Loch Fyne

Loch Fyne is a sea loch on the west coast of Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It extends 65 kilometres inland from the Sound of Bute, making it the longest of the sea lochs....
, and from Inverclyde

Inverclyde

Inverclyde is one of 32 Council areas of Scotland of Scotland. It borders onto Renfrewshire and North Ayrshire, and is otherwise surrounded by the Firth of Clyde....
and North Ayrshire

North Ayrshire

North Ayrshire is one of 32 Council areas of Scotland of Scotland. It borders onto the areas of Inverclyde to the north, Renfrewshire to the north east, and East Ayrshire, and South Ayrshire to the East and South respectively....
to the east by the Firth of Clyde

Firth of Clyde

The Firth of Clyde forms a large area of coastal water, sheltered from the Atlantic ocean by the Kintyre peninsula which encloses the outer firth in Argyll and Ayrshire, Scotland....
. The sea lochs Loch Long

Loch Long

Loch Long is a body of water in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The loch extends from the Firth of Clyde at its southwestern end. It measures approximately 20 miles in length, with a width of between one and two miles....
and Loch Goil

Loch Goil

Loch Goil is a small sea loch in Scotland.It is an arm of Loch Long. The village of Lochgoilhead stands at its head.Located in the Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park, Lochgoilhead sits at the head of Loch Goil, a fjord type sea loch....
lie to the northeast, and the south of the peninsula is split into three forks by two further sea lochs, Loch Striven

Loch Striven

Loch Striven is a sea loch adjoining the west side of the Firth of Clyde just north of the Isle of Bute, where it forms a narrow inlet about 8 miles long extending north into the Cowal peninsula....
and to its west Loch Riddon. The Isle of Bute

Isle of Bute

Bute, also known as the Isle of Bute is one of the islands of the lower Firth of Clyde in Scotland. Formerly part of the Counties of Scotland of Buteshire, it now constitutes part of the council area of Argyll and Bute....
lies to the south of Cowal, separated from the peninsula by the narrow Kyles of Bute

Kyles of Bute

The Kyles of Bute are a narrow sea channel which separates the northern end of the Isle of Bute from the Cowal peninsula, part of the Scotland mainland....
which connect the Clyde to Loch Riddon.

Much of Cowal was once held by the Lamont Clan; encroachments by the neighbouring Campbells and other powerful families reduced the Lamont holdings in the Covenanting Wars of the seventeenth century.

Cowal's only burgh

Burgh

A Burgh is an Wiktionary:Autonomy corporate entity in Scotland, usually a town. This type of administrative division has existed since the 12th century, when David I of Scotland created the first Royal burghs....
is Dunoon

Dunoon

Dunoon is a resort town situated on the Cowal Peninsula in Argyll, Scotland. It sits on the Firth of Clyde beside Holy Loch and opposite Gourock....
in the south east, from which ferries

Ferry

A ferry is a form of transport, usually a boat or ship, used to carry passengers and their vehicles across a body of water. Ferries are also used to transport freight and even railroad cars....
sail to Gourock

Gourock

Gourock is a burgh in Inverclyde, Scotland. It has in the past functioned as a resort town on the Firth of Clyde. Its principal function today, however, is as a popular residential area, extending contiguously from Greenock, with a railway terminus and ferry services across the Clyde....
in Inverclyde. Other ferries run from Portavadie

Portavadie

Portavadie is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland....
in the west to Tarbert in Kintyre

Kintyre

Colintraive

Colintraive is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Ferries sail between Colintraive and Rhubodach on the Isle of Bute. It is located on the Kyles of Bute or Loch Riddon on the west coast of the Cowal peninsula....
in the south to Rhubodach

Rhubodach

Rhubodach is a small settlement on the Isle of Bute, Scotland.The name Rhubodach may come from the Scottish Gaelic Rubha a’ Bodach which translates as old man’s point or promontory or alternatively may be from An Rubha B?dach meaning the Bute headland....
on the Isle of Bute.

The Arrochar Alps

Arrochar Alps

The Arrochar Alps are a group of mountains located around the head of Loch Long, Loch Fyne,and Loch Goil, near the villages of Arrochar, Scotland and Lochgoilhead in Argyll, Scotland....
and Ardgoil peninsula in the north frindge the edges of the sea lochs whilst the Argyll Forest Park spreads out across the hillsides and mountain passes in north part of cowal, making this one of the most remote areas in the west of Scotland

Scotland

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The Towns and villages in Cowal are: Innellan

Innellan

Innellan is a village that lies on the east shore of the Cowal peninsula, on the Firth of Clyde, 4 miles south of the town of Dunoon in Scotland, United Kingdom....
, Toward

Toward

Toward is a village near Dunoon at the southern tip of the Cowal peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.Nearby is Castle Toward, a former country house built close to the ruined Toward Castle....
, Castle Toward

Castle Toward

Castle Toward is an outdoor education facility, based in a nineteenth century country house on the southern tip of the Cowal peninsula in Argyll, Scotland....
, Dunoon

Dunoon

Dunoon is a resort town situated on the Cowal Peninsula in Argyll, Scotland. It sits on the Firth of Clyde beside Holy Loch and opposite Gourock....
, Hunter's Quay

Hunter's Quay

Hunters Quay is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Situated between Kirn, Argyll and Bute to the south and Ardnadam to the north, Hunters Quay is the main base of Western Ferries, operating between Hunters Quay and McInroy's Point....
, Sandbank, Kilmun

Kilmun

Kilmun is a linear settlement on the north shore of the Holy Loch in Argyll and Bute in south-west Scotland, up to the village of Strone at Strone Point where the loch joins the Firth of Clyde....
, Strone

Strone

Strone is a village on in Argyll in south-west Scotland at the point where the north shore of the Holy Loch becomes the west shore of the Firth of Clyde....
, Ardentinny

Ardentinny

Ardentinny is a small village on the west shore of Loch Long, fourteen miles from Dunoon in Argyll on the Cowal peninsula. Nearby is 'Cruach a Chaise' while on the opposite side of Loch Long is the village of Coulport, home of HMNB Clyde, the base for Britain's Vanguard class submarine....
, Blairmore

Blairmore

Blairmore may refer to:*Blairmore, Alberta, a town in Canada*Blairmore School, a former independent school in Aberdeenshire, Scotland...
in the South East part facing the lowlands at Inverclyde

Inverclyde

Inverclyde is one of 32 Council areas of Scotland of Scotland. It borders onto Renfrewshire and North Ayrshire, and is otherwise surrounded by the Firth of Clyde....
. Carrick Castle

Carrick Castle

Carrick Castle is a 15th-century tower house on the west shore of Loch Goil, Argyll, Scotland. It is located between Cuilmuich and Carrick, south of Lochgoilhead....
, Lochgoilhead

Lochgoilhead

Lochgoilhead ) is a small village of some 300-400 people and is in the Scottish Highlands in Argyll, Scotland.Situated at the head of Loch Goil, where the Goil river, which rises on nearby Ben Donich and Beinn Bheula, flows into the loch , it is surrounded by mountains rising as high as 3 000 feet and is part of the Arrochar Alps....
, Ardgartan

Ardgartan

Ardgartan is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.A youth hostel run by the Scottish Youth Hostels Association operated for 70 years in Ardgartan until it was closed in 2002....
, Arrochar

Arrochar

Arrochar can refer to:* The village of Arrochar, Scotland in Argyll and Bute** The Arrochar Alps are a group of small mountains near this village....
, Rest and be Thankful, Succoth

Succoth

Succoth may mean:* The Jewish festival of Sukkot.* The Egyptian place of Sukkot#Sukkot_as_a_place, near the start of the Israelites' Exodus from Egypt....
, Tarbet

Tarbet

Tarbet may refer to different places in Scotland:* Tarbet, Argyll and Bute, a village on the side of Loch Lomond* Tarbet, Lochaber a hamlet on the shore of Loch Nevis...
, Inveruglas, Ardlui

Ardlui

Ardlui is a hamlet in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is located at the head of Loch Lomond. It is on the A82 road between Crianlarich and Glasgow and Ardlui railway station is on the West Highland Line between Glasgow Queen Street railway station and Oban or Fort William, Highland....
, Cairndow

Cairndow

Cairndow is a coastal hamlet in southwest Scotland.Cairndow lies between the A83 road and the head of Loch Fyne. Administratively it forms part of the Argyll and Bute council area....
, St Catherines in the north of Cowal in the Arrochar Alps

Arrochar Alps

Otter Ferry

Otter Ferry is a settlement in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, formerly the site of a ferry across Loch Fyne.Otter Ferry is situated 9 miles from Poravadie where you can catch the ferry to Tarbert....
, Kilfinan, Portavadie

Portavadie

Portavadie is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland....
are on the eastern shore of Loch Fyne

Loch Fyne

Loch Fyne is a sea loch on the west coast of Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It extends 65 kilometres inland from the Sound of Bute, making it the longest of the sea lochs....
facing Mid-Argyll and Kintyre

Kintyre

Kames

Kames can be:* Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish philosopher* Abdesalam Kames, Libyan footballer* Kames, East Ayrshire, Scotland* Kames, Argyll and Bute, Scotland...
, Tighnabruaich

Tighnabruaich

Tighnabruaich is a village on the Kyles of Bute in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.Tighnabruaich is popular for sailing and yachting and has its own sailing school but shinty is the major sport, with the village being home to Kyles Athletic who have won more Camanachd Cups than any other team apart from Newtonmore and Kingussie....
, Colintraive

Colintraive

Kyles of Bute

The Kyles of Bute are a narrow sea channel which separates the northern end of the Isle of Bute from the Cowal peninsula, part of the Scotland mainland....
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