history of the ardentinny bedroom

Ardentinny - The headland of the fire.

Ard or Aird - high, headland or promontory;

an - ‘of the’;

teine – fire

Ardentinny is a picturesque village on the west side of Loch Long on the A880. Fires may have been used here to warn of approaching danger (there was a lot of it about during the continuing battles between the Campbells and the Lamonts!). The lighting of bonfires – or Beltane fires – could also be linked to the worship of the Celtic god of light, Bel or Belinus. But the simplest and most likely reason was its use as a signal for a ferry to cross from Coulport on the opposite shore.