Kintyre (Scottish Gaelic: Cinn Tìre ) is a peninsula in western Scotland, in the south-west of Argyll and Bute. The region stretches approximately 30 miles (48 km), from the Mull of Kintyre (immortalised in the song of the same name by Paul McCartney) in the south, to East Loch Tarbert in the north. The region immediately north of the peninsula is known as Knapdale. Geographically, the Kintyre peninsula is long and narrow, at no point more than 11 miles (18 km) from west coast to east co… (More on Kintyre)