The image above is of boatbuilder’s clamp or tongs for fixing the planks of a clinker-built boat. Catalogue number LISDD:2008.134.1 In 1841, there were three families of carpenters on Lismore making clinker dinghies for inshore work: fishing, collecting seaweed,...
Book of sermons by Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne, translated into Gaelic. Owned by the MacPherson family, Clachan smiddy, Lismore Robert McCheyne, born in Edinburgh in 1813, had an influence on protestant Christians, through his writings, which lasted long after...
Catalogue numbers LISDD:2006.18 &19 Rotary querns for milling grain were probably introduced into the British Isles during the Roman period. The upper stone had a circular hole at the centre through which the grain was introduced, and one or two shallow...