Travellers on the road from Port Ramsay to Laggan may never have wondered how this unsealed but perfectly navigable road came about. Particularly as,...
Stepping Back in Time
An Events' day at the Museum gave adults and children alike the chance to step back in time and experience the everyday lives and especially the chores of earlier generations. Freda MacGregor and Catherine Gillies, dressed appropriately, demonstrated and taught...
Sailing Smacks Exhibition
On 22nd October 2011 Donald Meek, Emeritus Professor of Scottish and Gaelic Studies at the University of Edinburgh launched an audiovisual display on the history of the Lismore Sailing Smacks.The display is a rich collection of photographs and documents from the...
Archaeology at Lismore Primary
On the 6 November 2012 two Learning and Events officers from Dunollie Museum and Cultural centre - Archaeologist Tara Coia and Historian and Gaelic scholar Aonghas Murray – spent the day at Lismore Primary giving the children a taste of archaeology. It was part of a...
Waulking the tweed
. Sgioba Luaidh Inbhirchluaidh (Inverclyde Waulking Group) are an extremely impressive group who have visited Lismore twice, the first time on 20 July 2012 and the second a year later as part of the Crofters’ and Crafters’ day. They are preserving a skill and...
Loch Baile a’ Ghobhainn Project
What memories or activities do you associate with Loch Baile a' Ghobhainn? Balnagown Loch – as it is known today is a rare type of freshwater lake with very clear water, known as a marl lake. Less than 1% of lakes in the UK are marl lakes and those in Scotland are...
Taproot programme 2025 2026
Taproot – Lismore’s Winter festival - is back starting on 18 October 2025 and finishing on 22 March 2026 with a varied programme and encompassing 11 dates. The programme is balanced between speech and music with one walk and is always in the Museum room of the...
The Faure Requiem
To hear the Faure Requiem performed in the Lismore Parish Church on the 30 August 2025 was a great and unusual treat. The 70 plus singers were mainly from Canada with others from Lismore and the rest of Britain. The idea started in the mind of the choir director from...
Elizabeth Harvey Odling 1925 – 2004
In 1987, to commemorate the Lismore Women's Guild’s centenary, Elizabeth Odling was commissioned to design and make a new pulpit fall for the Lismore church. This, added to the stained glass windows designed by leading Arts and crafts practitioner Mary...
Mary Isobel Wood: Lismore’s stained glass windows
On Saturday 23 September 2025 Karen Livingstone met with members of Kilmoluag Liosmor (Lismore Church Futures Group) and others to discuss the important stained glass windows in Lismore Parish Church. She was introduced by her brother Ron Livingstone who is the...
Our Generous Donors
The MacDougall/McCallum Heritage Foundation in the USA has been a generous and continuing support to the Comann Eachdraidh Lios Mor for many years. It started with Margaret MacDougall Carasik who first came to Oban from Minnesota for the MacDougall gathering in 2004...
Book review: Monks and Bishops by Robert Hay
Hay’s account of the early history of the bishopric of Argyll is timely, coming as the Isle of Lismore community decide whether to take over responsibility for the church building which was once the site of the diocesan Cathedral. The book traces the foundation of...