Work in Progress (May 2017) Part 1. Achuaran: A Leading Township in the Improvement Era The 1839/40 printed details of the Airds estate provide rare insights into how the township of Achuaran was rented out. At 276 acres (total rent £245), it was one of the bigger...
Work in Progress (May 2017) We know a good deal about the history of the middle part of Lismore, even some details about how ordinary people lived in the 17th century, because of the many documents held in the Glenorchy/Breadalbane archive in the National Archives in...
Part One: Burning with Coal As part of the Nave Archaeological Dig in August 2016, Mark Thacker supervised some experimental lime burning near the lime kilns at Park near Port Ramsay. The popular way of small-scale lime burning with coal involves building a kiln with...
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...
Tools from the Smiddy and metal objects made by the blacksmiths are on display in the museum. The November 2013 Object featured the Book of Gaelic Sermons owned by the MacPhersons. Dugald MacPherson came from Oban to be blacksmith at Clachan in 1870 and he was...
The image above shows the Manse and Church on a postcard dated 1904. Scottish Presbyterians developed schism to a fine art in the 18th and 19th centuries, with groups falling out and rejoining over different points of doctrine but principally about the right of the...
The Connell boat building family in Lismore, were they members of the Clann Mhic Gille Chonaill ? D.C. McWhannell (24/04/14)1.0 Introduction: The well known and fondly remembered Lismore resident Donald Black, a founder member of Comann Eachdraidh Lios Mór, stated...
Editor’s note: This is an extract from an exceptionally full and authoritative article on the Clann Mhic Gille Chonaill by Donald C McWhannell, who is an acknowledged authority on the history of boat building in Argyll. The full text follows below....
Donald Black (1928– October 2013). The following is Dr Iain McNicol's tribute delivered at Donald Black's funeral service in Lismore church. Donald Black was my friend. Donald black was a friend of everyone in this church today and everyone on this island and many...
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...
For people in Lismore and the West Highlands, place names have always been an important part of individual and community identity. This booklet documents names which are not widely documented on existing maps though most have been recognised from one generation to the...
Transcription of Gravestones in the Old Graveyard of St Moluag's Church by Anne M White This Booklet contains a wealth of information which Anne has painstakingly gathered making the history of the island, as told by these stones, most accessible. As Anne says in...