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 of Argyll, from Dunstaffnage to Lismore and the...
The object collection includes two gramophones/record players, which played an important part in the social life of the island. Wind-up Grafonolas, designed to play 78rpm disc records (mostly shellac), were made in England by the Columbia Graphophone Company from the...
Before the introduction of the universal (prepaid) penny post in 1840, the nearest Post Office, in Appin, received mail from the south via Inveraray or Bonawe three times a week. It is not certain how people on Lismore received their mail as it had to be paid for by...
(LISDD:2006.59-61) Until well into the 20th century, it was common to be provided with a clay pipe when buying a packet of pipe tobacco, although most better-off smokers in Britain would use a briar pipe. Pipe smoking in general, and the use of clay pipes in...
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...
LISDD:2006.34 & 35 LISDD:2016.35 Griddle with hinged handle, base diameter 300mm LISDD:2016.34 Griddle with hinged handle and ring, base diameter 360mm. From Port Ramsay. Every house on Lismore would have had at least one traditional Scottish (or Irish)...
Kilandrist Parish School 1866-78 Baligarve Public School 1879-1965 Baligrundle Public School 1911-1960 LISDD:2017.U The 1872 Education Act provided state-sponsored schools, with compulsory attendance for all children from 5 to 13, run by local school boards; on...
Its rock bound coast and many skerries meant that Lismore was the scene of many wrecks in the days of sail, to the extent that there was allowance for “wreck money” in the rents on the Campbell of Airds estate. In the winter of 1742/43 the London, carrying 700...
LISDD:2007.H Neil Thomson was born in 1886 in Kintyre to Neil Thomson, shepherd, and Flora McLeod. After 1911, the family moved to Lismore, where Neil senior was farmer of Park & Point. He died of influenza on Christmas Day 1918 (see Object for July 2016). Neil...
Rock art in the form of cup or cup and ring marks has been found across Europe, with particularly fine examples in Spain, France and Italy. Nearly every year new examples are found in Scotland, particularly in Kilmartin Glen. It is thought that rock art of this kind,...
Some time between 1823 and 1841, Archibald Stewart, cotter and shoemaker on Baleveolan, died leaving his wife Mary a widow. Although poor in material resources, Mary was surrounded by Stewart and Livingstone kinsfolk; she, herself was the daughter of two Stewarts:...
(on long term loan from Lismore Parish Church) LISDD:2008.A12 Rev Gregor MacGregor, born in Rannoch in 1797 and educated at St Andrews University, was chosen, in 1836, to be the minister of Lismore and Appin Parish, which, at that time, stretched into Glencoe and...