Macharioch

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Macharioch is one of 18 chambered tombs the Albion Guide maps in Argyll and Bute. The nearest other chambered tomb is Gort na h-Ulaidhe long cairn, 17.6 km to the north.

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A hundred miles down the Kintyre peninsula, from Tarbert on Loch Fyne to Machrihanish on the Atlantic, by way of Campbeltown

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Tidal island off Campbeltown with a Stevenson lighthouse and seven sea caves, one holding an 1887 painting of the Crucifixion

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Old whisky and fishing town near the foot of Kintyre, once home to dozens of distilleries.

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Rugged headland at Kintyre's southern tip, its lighthouse looking across to Ireland, made famous in song.

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Six-mile golden Atlantic strand backed by Argyll's biggest dunes, running north from Machrihanish.

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Goatfell and the northern granite ridges, Brodick Castle, the Machrie Moor stone circles and a coast road circling the island

22.5 km NE