Kintyre

Kintyre, or Canty-re (Gaelic, "headland"), a peninsula in the S. of Argyleshire, running 42 miles S. by W. between the Firth of Clyde and the Atlantic, with a mean breadth of 7 miles. A low ridge of hills traverses the peninsula from N. to S. In the N. it is connected with Knapdale by the isthmus of Tarbert, and terminates in the S. in the Mull of Kintyre, 13 miles distant from Ireland, with a lighthouse 297 feet above high water.