Colour postcard from around 1980, of a thatched house with a well and pump in the foreground.
2021.22.3
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2021.22.1
Colour photograph of Mairi MacKinnon, Parkhouse, Balephetrish having dinner at the Lodge Hotel in around 2000, with Dr John Holliday on the left.
2021.22.5
Original sepia postcard of Scarinish in the 1920s, with the school right of centre (the larger building), and the Reading Room (now An Iodhlann) on the extreme right.
2021.21.1
21 small pieces of bog iron iron found by Dr John Holliday at Pàirc na Coille, Balephuil, in 2021. Bog iron ore occurs naturally in wet ground associated with sand. It was refined and used by Iron Age settlers to make tools etc.
2021.18.2
Steel latch hook with wooden handle belonging to tailor Malcolm MacArthur, Balemartine. Latch hooks are traditionally used in rug-making.
2021.11.5
Colour photograph of the former Mission Hall / Missionary House in Balephuil.
2021.11.4
Colour photograph of Kilkenneth chapel after renovation.
2021.11.2
Black & white photograph of Medieval skeletons in two burial pits discovered during excavation work at Kirkapol Parish Church.
2021.11.1
Colour photograph of the interior of Kirkapol Church before it was sold in around 2018.
2021.10.3
Colour photograph of Nick Turnbull fishing with lobster creels off Mull in around 1973, in a boat made by the father of Duncan Cameron, Scarinish.
