Everything about Knapdale totally explained
Knapdale (
Scottish Gaelic: Cnapadal) forms a rural district of
Argyll and Bute in the
Scottish highlands, adjoining
Kintyre to the south, and divided from the rest of
Argyll to the north by the
Crinan Canal.
Knapdale Forest, planted in the 1930s, covers much of the region. During the 1930s, the
Ministry of Labour supplied the men from among the unemployed, many coming from the crisis-hit mining and heavy industry communities of the Central Belt. They were housed in one of a number of Instructional Centres created by the Ministry, most of them on
Forestry Commission property; by 1938, the Ministry had 38 Instructional Centres across
Britain. The camp was used to hold enemy prisoners during the
Second World War. The hutted camp in Knapdale was located at Cairnbaan, just south of the Crinan Canal, and a surviving building remains in use as a
Forestry Commission workshop.
Local attractions include the
Chapel of Keills, A grave-slab in the chapel has a carving of a
clarsach similar to the Queen Mary Harp currently at the
museum of Scotland in
Edinburgh, 0ne of only the three surviving medieval gaelic harps. West Highland grave slabs from the Argyll area, suggesting that Knapdale is where this harp originated. The village also has a
thirteenth century Kilmory Chapel and the
eleventh century Castle Sween.
There is a long running campaign to
reintroduce the
European Beaver to Knapdale, as a pilot scheme for
Scotland. The Scottish Executive has recently announced that a re-introduction, involving the release of four beaver families, will go ahead in Spring 2009.
Knapdale has a designation as a
National Scenic Area.
Places in Knapdale include:
Image:Knapdale View.jpg|View from Knapdale towards Jura
Image:Coalisport.jpg|Loch Caolisport
Image:Knapdale forest track.jpg|Forest track in Knapdale
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