With the ground as hard as the runways nearby next to the Kintyre course, it seemed a risky strategy. |
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Their fleets of ships fought and won battles from the coasts of Kerry to Mizen's wild foreland, to the Mull of Kintyre. |
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The Mull of Kintyre proper is the lump of the peninsula south of Campbeltown, with the lighthouse at Machrihanish on its north west. |
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The island lies in the Firth of Clyde between Ayr and Ardrossan, and Kintyre. |
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The Kilbrannan Sound is a large arm of the Firth of Clyde, separating the Kintyre Peninsula from the Isle of Arran. |
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The red saltire flag does not appear upon Ireland itself, though it is placed upon the neighbouring Mulls of Galloway and Kintyre in Scotland. |
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Bruce ordered similar harryings in Argyle and Kintyre, in the territories of Clan MacDougall. |
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This began with Campbell property in Kintyre in the 1710s and spread after 1737 to all their holdings. |
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Kintyre Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary, one of the officers of arms at the Court of the Lord Lyon, is named after this peninsula. |
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Remains from the iron age are no less present, with the imposing Dun Skeig, a Celtic hillfort, located at the northern edge of Kintyre. |
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The east side of the Kintyre Peninsula is bounded by Kilbrannan Sound, with a number of coastal peaks such as Torr Mor. |
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Three hundred Irish troops successfully landed at Kintyre to add to Dundee's forces. |
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Though culturally and physically similar to the Hebrides, it is separated from them by the Kintyre peninsula. |
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In 1293, king John Balliol established shrieval authority by creating the post of sheriff of Kintyre. |
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However, in 1293, king John Balliol established the post of sheriff of Kintyre. |
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According to legend he first landed on the Kintyre Peninsula, near Southend. |
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Clyde Coast guard confirmed that a fishing boat had trawled the body up in its nets and the crew had then taken it to Mull of Kintyre. |
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The exact allocation to Somerled's sons is unclear, but following a family dispute, Donald, Somerled's grandson, acquired Kintyre, together with Knapdale, Islay, and Jura. |
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In 82 he sailed to either Kintyre or the shores of Argyll, or to both. |
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In 563, St Columba travelled to Scotland with twelve companions, where according to legend he first landed at the southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula, near Southend. |
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His name appears in the company of the Bishop of Argyll, the vicar of Arran, a Kintyre clerk, his father, and a host of Gaelic notaries from Carrick. |
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