Fourteen hardy souls gathered on a raw Winter day to explore the land surrounding what is now Lismore Parish Church which is thought to be related to a much larger building and/or buildings on the site known as the Cathedral of St Moluag. There were three Church...
Now we really have got started. On Sunday 18 January 2016 , the project was launched at Lismore manse. After church, over tea and snacks kindly provided by Barbara McDougall and Dot Hay, a group of 23 islanders formally set the ball rolling, approving the plans for...
Since the last posting on 4 July, there have been exciting developments: 6 October 2014. After several months of waiting, The Heritage Lottery Fund finally approved our project to lift, clean, repair and display eight of our best medieval stones in the...
There is a wealth of Bronze Age archaeology on Lismore (cairns and cists) but we have to look for less obvious traces of the first farmers of the New Stone Age (around 3,500-2,000BC). Several cup marked stones, including the great broken boulder at Cloichlea, may...
Why the Island Needs £20,000 to Protect its Medieval Heritage The visit to the Lismore Parish Kirk graveyard was a popular part of the Homecoming Lismore Week in August 2009. During the preparation of the guide for visitors, it became very clear that some of the most...
As a result of discussion at the 2012 Friends’ Day, volunteers mounted a series of archaeological walkovers in one part of the island during winter 2013. The aims were: To encourage community involvement in exploring our heritage To photograph, and locate with GPS...
The final walkover for winter/spring 2014 on 25 May 20214 attracted 12 enthusiasts, led by the local historian Douglas Breingan. We explored the southern part of Lismore, focusing on ancient duns and on settlements from the 18th/19th centuries. The data we collected,...
This winter’s second walkover on 16 February2014 was perhaps the most enjoyable and fascinating so far. Led by Douglas Breingan, local historian, a dozen of us spent a rare, sunny afternoon exploring part of the Fiart area, followed by tea at the café. [gallery...
Twelve children and their parents from the Mid Argyll Great Auks' Club - Kilmartin Museum's young archaeology and wildlife group –visited us on a very sunny April Day. They were lead by Kilmartin’s Education Officers, Julia Hamilton and Kate Moody, guided for the day...
The Comann Eachdraidh’s third archaeological walkover was at Baleveolan on Wednesday 13 March 2013. The combination of wonderful sunshine, beautiful views all around the island, and lots of unanswered historical questions, made for a very enjoyable afternoon. Though...
The old township of Killandrist meaning the cell of Andrew suggests this area was once dedicated to him probably in early Christian times, 8th century onwards, when folklore suggests a monastic community nearby or a scattering of monk cells, belonging to the Culdee...
This was the first of the walkovers to record as much of the archaeological evidence as possible. Twelve hardy souls gathered at the ruined village of Port a' Charrain on a very cold January afternoon.in 2013. We photographed every ruin and noticed signs of early...