Innellan - Izeria

Innellan is a village in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland, on the western shore of the Firth of Clyde. It is four miles south of Dunoon.

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Ardhallow Battery

Ardhallow Battery is a Palmerston Fort on the slopes of Corlarach Hill around 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Dunoon, in the west of Scotland. Part of the local Clyde Defenses and the Scottish Coastal Defences. The construction contract was awarded to "The Aitkenhead Builders" in 1901 for a price of £16,000. The Battery is a scheduled monument. The site was used in both World Wars and decommissioned in 1956. There was also the Dunoon Battery located atop Castle Hill in Dunoon. There was a battery on the east shore, the Cloch Point Battery, which was located on the slope above the Cloch Lighthouse. Enhanced and expanded for defence during the Second World War. It is also a scheduled monument. The site is now occupied by the Cloch Caravan Park. During both World Wars, a defensive boom, known as the Cloch Point to Dunoon Anti-Submarine Boom, was in place. Remains of the boom anchor points are also scheduled. These installations were built to protect the upper Firth of Clyde shipping and the numerous shipyards located on the lower reaches of the River Clyde.

Toward

Toward (Scottish Gaelic: Tollard) is a village near Dunoon, west of Scotland, in the south of the Cowal Peninsula. During World War II, the Toward area was a training centre called HMS Brontosaurus also known as the No 2 Combined Training Centre (CTC), based at Castle Toward.

Castle Wemyss

Castle Wemyss was a large mansion in Wemyss Bay, Scotland. It stood on the southern shore of the Firth of Clyde at Wemyss Point, where the firth turns southwards.

Toward Point Lighthouse

Toward Point Lighthouse is situated in the south of the Cowal Peninsula, near the village of Toward, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It marks the point where Loch Striven meets the Firth of Clyde. There has been a lighthouse here since 1812. Toward Point Lighthouse was completed in 1812. It was built by Robert Stevenson (1772–1850) for the Cumbrae Lighthouse Trust. Two lighthouse keepers' houses were added in the later 1800s. A white building on the foreshore housed the foghorn mechanism, originally a steam engine and then diesel engines. The foghorn was taken out of operation in the 1990s. The keeper's cottages were sold in 2012 and are now a private home. Toward Point marks the extreme south-westerly point of the Highland Boundary Fault as it crosses the Scottish mainland. The Highland Boundary Fault does not run through Toward Point, but about one kilometre to the west it can be located on the Toward shore by the presence of Serpentinite and the sudden change from younger sedimentary rocks to much older metamorphic rocks, notably Psammite.