Lochgair

Human settlement in Scotland
Lochgair is located in Argyll and Bute
Lochgair
Lochgair
Location within Argyll and Bute
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56°3′44″N 5°20′0″W / 56.06222°N 5.33333°W / 56.06222; -5.33333

Lochgair (Scottish Gaelic: An Loch Geàrr) is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It lies on the coast of Loch Gair, a small inlet on the west of Loch Fyne. The A83 road runs through the village.

In fiction

Lochgair is one of the main settings of Iain Banks's 1992 novel The Crow Road, which mixes real life locations in Argyll and the A83 road with fictional ones.[1]

References

  1. ^ "The Crow Road" (PDF). Retrieved 23 March 2014.[permanent dead link]
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