The Sheriff of Kintyre was historically the royal official responsible for enforcing law and order in
Kintyre
Kintyre ( gd, Cinn Tìre, ) is a peninsula in western Scotland, in the southwest of Argyll and Bute. The peninsula stretches about , from the Mull of Kintyre in the south to East and West Loch Tarbert in the north. The region immediately nor ...
, Scotland and bringing criminals to justice. The sheriffdom was created in 1293 by King
John of Scotland in an effort to maintain peace in the western reaches of his realm.
[ Cochran-Yu (2015) pp. 49–50; Brown, M (2011) p. 15; Stell, GP (2005); Brown, M (2004) p. 258.] At some point before 1481, it was superseded by, or became, ''
Tarbertshire
Tarbertshire, or the sheriffdom of Tarbert, was a shire of Scotland until 1633, when it was annexed to Argyllshire.RPS, 1633/6/91 It comprised the mainland peninsula formed by Knapdale and Kintyre, together with the southern Inner Hebrides to t ...
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Sheriffs of Kintyre
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James Stewart, High Steward of Scotland 1293-??
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1293 establishments in Scotland