Objects of the Month – 2016
Each month we look at an object or artefact and describe its significance to Lismore.
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...
Duncan MacCormick’s watch chain
LISDD:2010.156 Gold watch chain of twisted oval links, connected to an oval commemorative medal inscribed on one side with...
Victorian Bibles
It was not until 1801 that a full translation of the bible into Gaelic, by the Rev John Stuart of Luss, was published but,...
Rationing in the 1940s
(LISDD:2012.Q) With the loss of 563 merchant vessels by U-boat attack in 1940, the British Government introduced food and...