Below is LISDD: 2006.126a. Overall height 875 mm, seat 319 mm x 415/450 mm People on Lismore were very self reliant, producing most of their food and making many of the necessities for life at home. This attractive vernacular chair, from materials at hand, was made...
2013 was an important landmark for the Lismore Museum, when it achieved national accreditation from Museums Galleries Scotland, confirming that its collections are part of the national resource, and looked after to international standards. This status means that the...
LISDD:2006.40 Chisit or Fighan (Gaelic) – a wooden, straight sided, tapering bowl, metal bound as in a cask, with perforated base. Height 165 mm, radius at rim 230 mm. Making cheese has a long history on Lismore. At the 1638 baron court for Lismore, one of the...
LISDD:2006.110 St Kilda mailboats are wooden boxes in the shape of a boat, containing a letter, sometimes sealed into a metal box. Traditionally, they were attached to a sheep’s bladder as float. The first was sent out in 1876, as a distress signal, by John Sands, a...
Images, objects and documents from the Collections relating to the coming of mains electricity to Lismore in 1970 In spite of the post war ambitions of Tom Johnston to bring progress to the Highlands by electrification, quarter of a century would elapse before the...
Certificate of membership of the Lismore Branch of the Highland Land Law Reform Association issued to John McDonald. Lismore Document Archive LISDD:2007.B2 The Highland Land Reform Association (also known as the Highland Land League and the Crofters’ Party) was...
The image above is of boatbuilder’s clamp or tongs for fixing the planks of a clinker-built boat. Catalogue number LISDD:2008.134.1 In 1841, there were three families of carpenters on Lismore making clinker dinghies for inshore work: fishing, collecting seaweed,...
Book of sermons by Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne, translated into Gaelic. Owned by the MacPherson family, Clachan smiddy, Lismore Robert McCheyne, born in Edinburgh in 1813, had an influence on protestant Christians, through his writings, which lasted long after...
Catalogue numbers LISDD:2006.18 &19 Rotary querns for milling grain were probably introduced into the British Isles during the Roman period. The upper stone had a circular hole at the centre through which the grain was introduced, and one or two shallow...
On 18th July 2013 our Museum became an Accredited Museum. We were given this award from Museums Galleries Scotland. Here Dr Robert Hay, our Archivist, explains what this means. What does accreditation mean? It means we are a healthy organisation. Our management and...
One of the most interesting and exciting exhibits at the Lismore Gaelic Heritage Museum this season is an eighteenth century wine bottle salvaged in the 1980s from the Lynne of Lorne where it is thought to have lain for 200 years. Contrary to popular belief,...
A letter to the community from curator Jennifer Baker: The first year of my contract as Curator in the Community is now completed and so far eleven households have been visited by either me or volunteers. Objectsand archive have been photographed and...