Colour photograph of Kirkapol Church.
Kirkapol Church around the early 1980s.
2004.165.3
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2000.30.6
Periodical `The Coll Magazine`, No. 4, 1986.
Articles about WWI, the Breachacha creamery, Hebridean Herbals, the church on Coll, travellers to Coll, moths and butterflies, heaths and heathers, the Coll Association among others.
2000.30.9
Periodical `The Coll Magazine`, No. 8, 1990.
Articles about seers, emigration ship `Brilliant`, fishing competitions, poetess and pauper Janet MacLean, the school, the church, model aeroplanes, ducks, views on Coll and the Community Council among others.
2004.161.5
Newsletter `Na Duilleagan Gaidhlig`, No. 9, September 2004.
Gaelic newsletter with photographs and two short articles about Kirkapol church and Duncan MacPhee`s thatched house in Scarinish.
2004.89.1
Hardback book `Argyll Volume 3: Mull, Tiree, Coll & Northern Argyll`.
An inventory of the monuments of Mull, Tiree, Coll & Northern Argyll.
2001.78.7
Black and white postcard of Heylipol Church and Schoolhouse.
Postcard of Heylipol Church with the schoolhouse on the extreme right.
2001.51.2
Black and white photograph of Heylipol Church in the 1930s.
Heylipol Church in the 1930s, from a small album from Silversands. (1997.176.10)
2004.59.2
Black and white photgraph of the Presbytery of Lorne and Mull at Heylipol Church in 1984.
The Presbytery of Lorne and Mull at Heylipol Church in the summer of 1984 at the ordination and induction of Rev. George Donaldson (centre with glasses) to the Parish of Tiree and Coll.
1999.68.30
Heylipol Church
Postcard of Heylipol Church
Courtesy of Mr Angus Munn
Known locally as ‘Eaglais na Mòintich’ (Moss Church), the church was built in 1902, replacing a former church building erected on the site in the 19th century. The name Heylipol is derived from the Norse for Holy Town suggesting early Christian settlement in the area.
Designed by William MacKenzie, the church is of cruciform Gothic design with a bell tower over the entrance porch. Externally it is faced with dressed granite from a local quarry. The pews can accommodate 365 worshippers.
The pulpit has wooden panels carved by boys from a woodwork class organised by Lady Victoria Campbell, daughter of the 8th Duke of Argyll, a benefactress to the people of Tiree in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Black and white postcard of Heylipol Church.
Heylipol Church.
2000.74.1
Audio cassette recording of Janet MacIntosh talking to Maggie Campbell in March 2000.
Janet MacIntosh of Caoles and Balinoe talks to Maggie Campbell in March 2000 about her schooldays in Balemartine, her pastimes, the delivery of a telegram from Balinoe Post Office, wartime and the pictures, the funeral of 16 RAF crew members who died in a plane crash, monthly ceilidhs, dances and Gaelic plays, travelling shops, funerals, transport, gathering and cooking seafood and seaweed, and the health benefits of sea water.