Tracing your family history can reconnect you with a rich heritage shaped by migration and resilience. We can help descendants of Liosaich (Lismore folk) rediscover their genealogical roots. We are very lucky to have Laura Gloag as our resident genealogist who has a...
Jennifer Baker friend and Chair of the Comman Eachdraidh Lios Mòr wrote: Margaret MacDonald, one of the founder members of Comann Eachdraidh Lios Mòr died on Tuesday 5th January 2021 aged 91. As well as the great memories that we all have of her, she has left a...
Lismore Historical Society A Company limited by guarantee No. SC234832 AIREAMH CARTHANNAIS/Charity No. SC023503 Port a’ Charrain, Isle of Lismore, Argyll, PA34 5UL. Tel 01631 760030 Our AGMs for Comann Eachdraidh Lios Mor and TAIC Comann...
In 2015 The Heritage Lottery Fund finally approved the project to lift, clean, repair and display eight of our best medieval stones in the graveyard. They stand between the church and the war memorial . There is a leaflet beside the display and below is the detailed...
Striking (Early Medieval) Gold on the Hebridean Isle of Lismore! Summary Six years of community archaeology on Lismore organised by the Lismore Historical Society, have uncovered a stone building of the 7th-10thC AD monastic site founded by St Moluag, and a workshop...
If we are going to understand what was going on in the Lismore glebe over a thousand years ago, we need post-excavation analysis of many unique finds. In some ways, the actual digging is the easy and exciting bit of archaeology but, when you discover unique finds,...
Help us to reveal what life at the Lismore monastery was like Fourteen Hundred years ago The Historical Society on Lismore needs financial support for the analysis and conservation of the 1500 valuable finds which its team of volunteers have rescued from a newly...
The Heritage Centre Shop is a cornucopia of Lismore creativity. This island's small population, (170) is able fill a shop with goods that are uniquely Lismore.. Let's start with the many Lismore written or inspired books. which are round the corner in the shop....
An exciting addition to the Museum in 2023 season is the newly displayed fragments from the Lismore High Cross. These have been in the museum for some years but this year they are a feature, thanks to Douglas Breingan who has erected a stand and cleverly lit them. In...
Follow the trail to meet famous islanders (and others). From a guided tour by Robert Hay Enter the graveyard by the east gate (to the left of the church entrance) and walk towards the minister’s enclosure on the far wall of the graveyard. Station 1 In the enclosure is...
The story of a Lismore Crofter and Entrepreneur The 19th Century was a hard time for most of the ordinary folk of Lismore, with evictions, emigration, crop failures, famine and widespread poverty. A few individuals did prosper, notably John McIntyre, but his wider...
The south end of the Isle of Lismore lies at a major branching of the seaway going north: the Sound of Mull on the way to the Western Isles; the main branch of Loch Linnhe (the Lynn of Morvern), leading to Fort William and the Caledonian Canal; and the more...