A new walk from Walk Lismore celebrates St Moluag who arrived on Lismore from Ireland, in 562 AD as one of the proselytising workers of the early Christian church. It is said he travelled with his twelve apostles and set up a monastic community known as a muinntireas. He set up similar centres at other places in Scotland; his name is known from Lewis to Aberdeen to the Isle of Man. As Donald Black said: ‘Truly he was just as important as Columba in the early Celtic church but is not as well known. Of course not being of noble birth and not having a biographer as a relative was a distinct disadvantage.’
Moluag died in 592 on 25th June, now his commemoration day. This walk can be done comfortably between the normal ferry service leaving Oban at 0900 and returning at 1500. (It’s not always normal.)
Follow the walk at Walk Lismore.
St Moluag and churches at the Heritage Centre
Cathedral Church of St Moluag
The Heritage Centre – Ionad Naomh Moluag
St Moluag