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 Lismore Property For Sale and Rent
Lismore Island of, Argyll celebrated in Scottish ecclesiastical history and in the story of Gaelic, lies in the lower waters of the sea arm of Loch Linnhe, and at the SW. mouth of
the Great Glen that divides Scotland from northeast. to southwest About 6 miles north west of Oban, little more than half a mile from the mainland at its
nearest point close to Port Appin, surrounded splendidly by the peaks of Benderloch, Appin, and Morven to the east northeast and north and
facing the heights of the island of mull to the southwest
with as much land around it as water, it only just attains its
island status
Lismore History
It is popularly supposed to derive its name from the Gaelic for 'Great Garden', but more probably the Gaelic for 'Great Enclosure', coming from the ecclesiastical and monastic past, is its true derivation.
'Great Garden' is, however, a suitable name indeed for this fertile green isle of loam soil resting on a bed of fruitful limestone.
It no where reaches a greater height than 417 ft, is about 10 m. long and H m. broad; but, as the island's historian, Ian Carmichael, Minister of Lismore, has put it, 'Lismore provides a grandstand view of some of the finest scenery - landscape and
seascape - in all Scotland.
'It was Christianized in the 6th cent, by St Moluag, a contemporary or near predecessor of St Columba, but, being of Pictish association, he was not of the community of Irish Celtic saints. The unedifying if amusing tales of the rivalry
between the two men are probably the invention of their followers. After the establishment of the Scottish episcopate in obedience to Rome, the diocese of
Argyll had its cathedral in the 13th cent, on Lismore. No more than traces of this small cathedral may be seen; but Lismore was once of considerable ecclesiastical importance.
The island touched obliquely if sensationally the course of Western literature by the discovery of The Book of the Dean of Lismore (d.1551). This fortified the claims of
James Macpherson's Ossian to be founded on genuine Gaelic ancient oral tradition. Lismore has a good but little used harbour in Port Ramsay to the north There is a car-ferry service to Achnacroish,
on the east side, from Oban.
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