Neil MacCormick was born in 1857, the fourth son of Alexander and Cathrine MacCormick, tenants of Baligarve. He made his living first as a tailor and was still living at home at Baligarve, aged 24 at the 1881 census. In the following decade he married, moved to...
LISDD:2007.C The Lismore Agricultural Society was founded in 1853, under the rules and regulations of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland. Its aims were to Improve the agricultural production of the island by promoting: Ploughing and spade labour Stock...
On long term loan from Argyll & Bute Museums Found near Lochan Treshtil, Kilcheran, Lismore. Awarded by the Treasure Trove Panel to Argyll & Bute Council in 2004. This Viking Age Link Plate, 2cm in length, in high-quality 22-carat gold with traces of copper...
On long-term loan, for security, from Lismore Parish Church These are fragments of a substantial stone that were later mortared into walls in the church graveyard. The upper fragment was found by Donald Black in the wall surrounding the ministers’ lair to the...
Records of the Annual Show of the Lismore Agricultural Society The Lismore Agricultural Society, founded in 1853, held an annual agricultural show, up to the eve of WW2, in the field next to Baligrundle School . The poster for 1930 confirms the scale and ambition of...
In the early 1600s, the Campbell Lords of Glenorchy, soon to be the Earls of Breadalbane, owned one third of Lismore – the townships of Baligrundle, Achnacroish, Tirlaggan, Killean, Baleveolan and Balimakillichan, looked after by a cadet family of Campbells planted in...
On long-term loan, for security, from Lismore Parish Church Although this is only a fragment (0.46 x 0.47m) of an Iona School graveslab, carved in local slate, it shows a wide range of features. The botanical details at the centre (“palmette design”) are actually...
LISDD:2006.11 This object in the Lismore Museum collection is a replica. In 1995, the original was found by Donald MacLean in a pile of building spoil from work at Newfield Farm. Freda MacGregor , the head teacher of Lismore Primary School, recognised its importance...
Documents relating to the Resettlement of Baligrundle 1913/5 From the Baligrundle 1 Archive In the 1840s, James Auchinleck Cheyne cleared the township of Baligrundle of its tenants and cottars, and converted the land to a sheepwalk. The community of 44 people in 1841...
LISDD:2006.95 The Lady Margaret, known as “The Leddy” on Lismore, was built by William Fife & Son at Fairlie, N Ayrshire in 1876. She was one of the bigger, and more elegant, sailing smacks engaged in the West Highland coastal trade (registered 40 tons, overall...
During World War II Oban Bay was an important base for the assembly of Arctic Convoys and for the War in the Atlantic. There was a complex set of signaling stations and submarine detectors, but a raid in December 1940 by German bombers, which resulted in the loss of...
The camera below is a Six-20 Brownie Model C Box Camera LISDD:2006.65. Brownie Box cameras were first introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1900. At a price of $1, they made photography available to everyone, and helped to transform lives. The controls were very simple and...