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Kilmelfort Hydro-Electric Scheme
Kilmelfort Hydro-Electric Scheme is a small-scale hydro-electric power station, built by the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board and commissioned in 1956. It is located near Kilmelford in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It was originally designed to supply power to the local communities around Kilmelford, but is now connected to the National Grid.
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Kilmelford
Kilmelford (Scottish Gaelic: Cill Mheallaird) is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
It is situated near the head of the west coast sea loch, Loch Melfort, on the A816 Lochgilphead to Oban road about 15 miles (24 km) south of Oban.
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Kames Bay, Loch Melfort
Kames Bay is small remote tidal north by northwest facing coastal embayment forming part of the southern coast of Loch Melfort within Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
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Arduaine
Arduaine (Scottish Gaelic: An Àird Uaine, lit. 'green/fertile promontory or headland', pronounced "Ar-DOO-nee") is a Scottish coastal hamlet located on the A816 about 20 miles south of Oban and 18 miles north of Lochgilphead. It is in the council area of Argyll and Bute, at the southern boundary of the civil parish of Kilmelford and Kilninver, and comprises about two dozen houses, a hotel and restaurant, and a botanical garden.
The settlement was originally named Asknish, but tea planter J. Arthur Campbell was required to change the name when he bought the estate in 1897 (the previous owners of the estate then started using the name Asknish for the Lochgair mansion house that their predecessors had built in the late 18th century).
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Battle of Lagganmore
The Battle of Lagganmore took place in 1646 at Lagganmore in Glen Euchar, west of Loch Scammadale. It was part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, though in this case the battle, which was fought largely between Highland clansmen, incorporated a long running feud between Clan MacDonald and Clan Campbell.
The Royalist forces of Alasdair Mac Colla, supported by men of Clan MacDougall and Clan MacAulay, defeated the pro-government forces of the Campbells who were supported by Clan MacCallum.