Argyll's Bowling Green ( meaning "sunny hamlet" or "sunny cattle fold"), also known as the Ardgoil peninsula, is an area on the

Ardgoil Ardgoil is an Estate (house), estate in Argyll & Bute, Scotland. It is part of the Argyll forest park and is within the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. The Ardgoil estate is managed as part of the Argyll forest park by Forestry Comm ...

estate in

Argyll and Bute Argyll and Bute (; , ) is one of 32 unitary authority, unitary council areas of Scotland, council areas in Scotland and a lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area. The current lord-lieutenant for Argyll and Bute is Jane Margaret MacLeod ...

Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ...

."Argyll's Bowling Green"
Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 30 July 2009.Murray (1977) p. 26.

Description

The area includes the most southerly part of the

Arrochar Alps The Arrochar Alps are a group of mountains located around the heads of Loch Long, Loch Fyne, and Loch Goil. They are part of the Grampian mountains range, which stretch across Scotland. The villages of Arrochar, Argyll and Bute, Arrochar and Lo ...

and lies between

Loch Goil Loch Goil; () is a small sea loch forming part of the coast of the Cowal peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The sea loch is entirely within the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. It is an arm of Loch Long. The village of Lochg ...

and

Loch Long Loch Long is a body of water in the council area of Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The sea loch extends from the Firth of Clyde at its southwestern end, to the Arrochar Alps at the head of the loch. It measures approximately in length, with a wi ...

. It is part of the

Argyll Forest Park Argyll Forest Park is a forest park located on the Cowal Peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands. Established in 1935, it was the first forest park to be created in the United Kingdom. The park is managed by Forestry and Land Scotland, ...

and is within

Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park () is a national park in Scotland centred on Loch Lomond and the hills and glens of the Trossachs, along with several other ranges of hills. It was the first of the national parks of Scotland, two nati ...

."Get-a-map"

Ordnance Survey The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see Artillery, ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of ...

. Retrieved 30 July 2009. The name is marked on James Dorret's 1750 ''General Map of Scotland and Islands thereto belonging''.
Heritage Paths. Retrieved 5 February 2018. In the 1834–1845 account by Rev John McDougal, minister of the area, he describes how people going to the low country (south) had to climb the “Duke of Argyle’s bowling green”. This was part of a route called the “Duke's Path” which started on the shore of

and ended at a place called Mark on the shore of

where you crossed the loch by boat. The name is an

anglicisation Anglicisation or anglicization is a form of cultural assimilation whereby something non-English becomes assimilated into or influenced by the culture of England. It can be sociocultural, in which a non-English place adopts the English language ...

of the Gaelic, which may be consciously humorous, as there is very little flat land. The name originally referred to a small grazing ground on the south east side of the peninsula above Mark () but is sometimes used to describe the peninsula. The mountains of the peninsula include: *

Ben Donich Ben Donich or Beinn Dòmhnaich is a mountain located in the Arrochar Alps, near Loch Goil in Argyll and Bute. It is a Corbett and part of the Ardgoil range with its sister The Brack. The closest settlement to Ben Donich is the village of Lochgo ...

847m *

The Brack The Brack is a mountain, located in the Arrochar Alps, on the south side of Glen Croe, near Loch Goil in Argyll and Bute in Scotland. The Brack has two summits: the lower peak to the southeast, Cruach Fhiarach, can be seen from the shores of Loch ...

787m * Cnoc Coinnich 761m * Beinn Reithe 653m *

The Saddle The Saddle () is one of the great Scottish mountains; seen from the site of the Battle of Glen Shiel it forms (with Faochag) one of the best-known views in the Highlands. It is in the Highland local government area, on the boundary between ...

521m * Clach Bheinn 441m * Tom Molach 370m * Càrn Glas 502m * Tom nan Gamhna 389m * The Steeple 390m

References

* Murray, W.H. (1977) ''The Companion Guide to the West Highlands of Scotland.'' London. Collins. * Statistical Account of the United Parishes of Lochgoilhead & Kilmorich (1791–99) by Rev. Dugal McDougal * Statistical Account of the United Parishes of Lochgoilhead & Kilmorich (1834–45) by Rev. John McDougal

Notes

Peninsulas of Scotland Landforms of Argyll and Bute {{Argyll-geo-stub