We are open for the season - April till October 11-4. Visit the accredited museum, the award winning cafe - Island cafe of the year 2025 - , the reconstructed cottars' cottage, and a shop stocked with Lismore made as well as fair trade items. You can reach the...
The Heritage Centre is now closed for the season and will reopen in April 2025. Thanks to the volunteers, over 50 people from on and off the island, who run every aspect of this centre, it has been an eventful and successful season. Taproot, our winter festival...
This event was funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council with the Lismore Gaelic Heritage Centre and explored many aspects of Rev. Donald McNicol (1735-1802), a one-time minister of Lismore. Topics included his extensive Gaelic literary...
For the first time on 3 August 2024 visitors were invited to experience museum objects at first hand. Dave, Archie and Ailsa Clarke offered the opportunity to hold a variety of objects from 7000 year old tools, to Viking buckles, Roman brooches, and coins from the...
Members of the Clan MacDougall International Gathering at Dunollie, were given an enthusiastic welcome when they visited Lismore in 2 groups on 31 July and 1 August 2024. Explore Lismore, who run the island’s very popular land rover tours - were at Achnacroish to...
On the back wall of the museum room are photographic reproductions of 19 watercolour sketches by Lord Archibald Campbell. The original sketchbook is part of the archive of the Duke of Argyll held at Inveraray. Lord Archibald Campbell (1846-1913) was the second...
Taproot, the winter festival which runs on Sunday afternoons at the Heritage Centre from October to March, finished this year in June with a performance of an original play by Jennifer Baker from the Lismore Primary School children. The 2023/4 festival was very wide...
This year we are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the formation of Lismore Historical Society, Comann Eachdraidh Lios Mòr The Society was formed in 1994 with the help of Beathag Morrison of Comann na Gaidhlig. It was founded by the late Donald Black, the...
The annual Christmas craft fair on Saturday 9th. set the celebrations going and it was the first opportunity to shop locally for the many gifts Lismore produces. We scarcely need to go off the island for Christmas shopping.. On 14 December Lismore Primary treated us...
There is so much exciting stuff going on on the Island at the moment. The Community Shop and Post Office, the funding for which is going like a steam train with everyone contributing; new affordable housing at the planning stage; the Cathedral Church possibly passing...
October 2022 to March 2023 On the first Sunday of every month from October to March 22/ 23, 6 talented artists performed an ‘intimate gig’ in the museum room starting around 6.45pm. Stephen Gallager 8.01.23 creator and producer of...
The Moderator of the Church of Scotland has visited Lismore just once – in 2005. The building we now know as Lismore Parish Church was once the Cathedral Church of St Moluag. It was built by the MacDougalls sometime in the 13th century, although evidence of exact...