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...
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...
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...
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...
Pre- reformation Scotland has not been a frequent subject of scholarship and Lismore has shared this neglect. Until now. With Monks and Bishops a great chunk of Lismore’s history is brought to light thanks to Dr Robert Hay’s scholarship and his pursuit of the...
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...
Of all the Irish missionaries who crossed the sea in coracles to bring Christianity to these islands, St Moluag is one of the least known and venerated. Yet, it was not always so. If reports are to be believed, he had a busy life travelling extensively from Lismore to...
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 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...
A new walk from Walk Lismore celebrates St Moluag who arrived on Lismore from Ireland, in 562 AD as one of the proselytising workers of the early Christian church. It is said he travelled with his twelve apostles and set up a monastic community known as a muinntireas....
Fourteen hardy souls gathered on a raw Winter day to explore the land surrounding what is now Lismore Parish Church which is thought to be related to a much larger building and/or buildings on the site known as the Cathedral of St Moluag. There were three Church...
Dr lain MacDonald's talk in the Gaelic Heritage Centre's Museum room on 25 May 2013 was ironically titled "Among a people rude and barbarous" : the later medieval Bishops of Lismore" reflecting the casual and convenient stereotyping of the highlander as...