Objects of the Month
Each month we look at an object or artefact and describe its significance to Lismore.
Cup-marked stone
Rock art in the form of cup or cup and ring marks has been found across Europe, with particularly fine examples in Spain,...
The Hawthorn House cradle
Some time between 1823 and 1841, Archibald Stewart, cotter and shoemaker on Baleveolan, died leaving his wife Mary a...
Rev Gregor McGregor’s Private Register 1836-1863
(on long term loan from Lismore Parish Church) LISDD:2008.A12 Rev Gregor MacGregor, born in Rannoch in 1797 and educated at...
Profile Moulding from the Nave of Lismore Cathedral
LISDD:2006.125 Although there is general agreement that the choir/chancel of the Cathedral of Argyll on Lismore dates from...
The Cape Breton Emigrant Letters 1847-59
LISDD:2009.N1-7 Eighteenth century emigrants from Lismore went mainly to the United States of America, to the Carolinas and...
The Appin Head
(on long-term loan from Kilmartin House Museum) This human face carved on a natural boulder of local igneous stone (37 x 26...
Alexander MacFarlane’s Gaelic Psalter
This book (8 x 13 x 4cm), in very poor condition, foxed and brittle, with the back cover missing, originated from the...
Lime quarrying and burning
It is easy to be misled by the appearance of the Lismore limestone. Although much greyer than many commercially-exploited...
The 1918 Influenza pandemic
The McCormicks at Daisybank were a devoted family, very supportive of one another after the early death, in 1902, of Neil,...
Gunpowder flasks
Before the introduction of manufactured cartridges and bullets from the mid-19th century, powder flasks were required to...