CAMPBELTOWN, royal and municipal burgh, parish and seaport, Argyllshire, Scotland. Pop. (1931) 6,309. It is situated on a fine bay, towards the south-east extremity of the peninsula of Kintyre, II m. N. E. of the Mull and 83 m. S. W. of Glasgow by water. The seat of the Dalriad monarchy in the 6th or 7th century, its importance declined when the capital was transferred to Forteviot. No memorial of its antiquity has survived, but the finely sculptured granite cross standing on a pedestal in the market-place belongs to the 12th century, and there are ruins of old chapels and churches. It became a royal burgh in 1700. One of the churches occupies the site of a castle of the Macdonalds. The staple industry is whisky distilling. The port is the head of a fishery district. Shipbuilding, malting and net-making are other industries, coal is mined in the vicinity, and limestone quarried. There are three piers and a safe harbour. On the Atlantic shore is the well-known golf-course of Machrihanish, 5 m. distant. Machrihanish is connected with Campbeltown by a light railway. On the rock of Dunaverty stood the castle of Macdonald of the Isles, who was dispossessed by the Campbells in the beginning of the 17th century. At this place in 1647 General David Leslie is said to have ordered 300 of the Macdonalds to be slain after their surrender. Of the ancient church founded here by Columba, only the walls remain.