Audio cassette recording of Rev. Robert Higham interviewed by Maggie Campbell in the Manse at Gott on 19/8/2002.
Rev. Robert Higham talks to Maggie Campbell at Gott Manse in August 2002 about Christianity on Tiree since the 13th century, the Tiree chapels particularly those at Kirkapol and other sites of worship, the place-names associated with saints, the restoration of the Kirkapol chapels and the pilgrimage route.
Photocopied extract `Tiree – Pre-Reformation Chapels and Burial-Grounds` from `Coll and Tiree` by Erskine Beveridge.
Descriptions of the thirteen ancient chapels on Tiree.
Photocopied extract `Notes on the Antiquities of the Island of Tiree` by J Sands from `Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1881-2, Vol. XVI, pp 459-63.
Article about cup-markings or crotagan, ancient forts or duns, ancient churches, chapels, church-yards, graveyards and burial-grounds
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Photocopied extract from `Outer Isles` by Ada Goodrich Freer, pp 1-61.
Account of a visit to Tiree in 1894.
Extract from ‘The Island of Tiree’ by William Reeves, D.D.
Transcription of an extract from ‘The Island of Tiree’ by William Reeves, D.D. about the ancient chapels and graveyards on the island.
Dr Reeves’ monograph on the ecclesiastical antiquities of Tiree was published in the Ulster Journal of Archaeology in 1854. In it he lists thirteen sites at Balinoe, Cornaigmore, Balephetrish, Kirkapol, Kilkenneth, Kennavara, Kilmoluaig, Barrapol, Hynish, Heylipol and Caoles.
In the Statistical Account of the 1790s, Rev. Archibald MacColl recorded that on Tiree there were ‘15 remains of old chapels or churches, at some of which are burying grounds and crosses still to be seen.’ Esrkine Beveridge in his ‘Coll and Tiree’ proposed sites for the two chapels not identified by Dr Reeves.
The first is Caibeal Thomais (St Thomas’s Chapel) which was situated with its burial ground on the outskirts of Scarinish. The second is on Cnoc Grianal, a knoll on the north-west of Ben Hynish near to Balephuil, where there may be the remains of a building measuring some 12 by 24 feet lying on an east-west axis.
Newsletter `Friends of Tiree Chapels`, no. 3, May 2002.
Progress report re conservation and renovation of the Kirkapol chapels, plus exhibition at An Iodhlann, written by Rev Bob Higham.
Minutes of the Tiree Heritage Society AGM, 20/3/2002.
Minutes of AGM covering the following topics: Chapels Project Committee report, disbaled access, children`s book `Nud`s Notebook`, guide book, audio tapes, website, pilgrimage route, publicity and fund raising.
Booklet `The Kirkapol Chapels, Isle of Tiree` by Rev. Robert D. Higham.
The ecclesiastical history of the chapels, their ministers, the structure of the chapels and their conservation.
Newspaper article `Tiree`s grave discovery` about the Kirkapol chapels.
Discovery of mass grave at one of the Kirkpol chapels.
Colour photograph of Rev. Bob Higham at the Kirkapol chapel.
The smaller of the two Kirkapol chapels, possibly called St Brendan`s, in 2001, with contractor Sara Carruthers on the left and Rev. Bob Higham on the right.
