On Sunday 14 August 2022 we were delighted to welcome back Finlay Hay (guitar) and his Taproot ensemble of young musicians: Mari-Carmen Morris, violin, from Spain Can Aristoy, keyboard, from Turkey – pronounced Jan in Turkish, and Hattie MacGregor, cello, from the...
Artist Iona MacLeod created an exciting installation in a depopulated croft at Ballimackillichan. As well as creating arresting art, she drew attention to what is not just an historical problem but a very real present one . As the population falls today those who...
Lismore's ground water or what can I do with the borehole.: A talk by Noelle Odling 5 February 2022 at 7.30 The story so far: Foster Yeoman opened the Glensanda super quarry in 1986, and it is now the largest quarry in Europe exporting granite to the world. The site...
On Saturday - 11 December 2021 - the LISMORE CRAFT & FOOD CHRISTMAS FAIR went ahead at Lismore Gaelic Heritage Centre. Known as the one stop shop for Christmas shopping, it offered Lismore-made gifts and no air miles. There were 10 stalls selling island crafts,...
With the intention of enhancing the income from his Lismore estate, and generating additional employment, Duncan Campbell of Glenure (1716-84) secured funds from the Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvement in Scotland to provide flax seed for Lismore...
A report of an earlier dig and what was found. Achinduin Castle in the south west of Lismore was built around 1300 by the MacDougalls, who were the dominant family in the West at that time. It is one of a chain of stone castles by which they controlled the coastline...
Weʼre raising £2,496 to help fund Community Archaeology on Lismore to explore St Moluag's Monastery Help us to explore St Moluag's Early Church Monastery on Lismore Tradition has it that Moluag brought Christianity from Ireland to the Isle of Lismore in the...
‘A Sacred Island: Lismore’s unique medieval Heritage’ is a film by Julia Fayngruen which you can see mounted on one of the ipads in the museum room. The words, spoken by Murray Willis, are by Robert Hay accompanied by fiddle variations on “Leaving Lismore" from...
Because 2020’s special exhibition could not open until July, it was seen by fewer people. So this year the story is continuing, the story of Lismore life during the second half of the 19th century, a time of such poverty and upheaval, many families left the island...
The lights went on in Lismore on 31 October 1970. A mere fifty years ago. On that Saturday, at 3 Newfield Terrace, the late Donald John and Margaret MacDonald with their children Peggy and Lachlan (and a few dignitaries) stared up and witnessed a lightbulb becoming...
This year's special exhibition at the museum opened in July as a result of Covid and lockdown. Unfortunately it was seen by fewer people than in other years particularly as it dealt with the middle years of the nineteenth century when the population began its great...
Lismore's Music and Literature Festival 2019 was blessed with great weather and wonderful performances. But most of all with professional planning and organising. Behind the scenes Jennifer Baker and Memory McDonald worked with too many volunteers to list. Great...