Black and white postcard of kelp-burning at Kennavara.
Kelp-burning at Kennavara.
2000.129.1
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1998.174.2
Black and white postcard of Kennavara, Travee and Bail` Ur, Balephuil in the 1930s.
Postcard of Kennavara, Travee and Bail` Ur, Balephuil in the 1930s. Houses L-R: Taigh Dhòmhnaill Chaluim Bàin; Taigh Iain Bhlack; Taigh Dhonnchaidh Bhàin / Sheumais Bhàin; Taigh Ceit Chalein; Taigh Alasdair Iain Mhòir / A’ Ghreusaiche; Buth Alasdair Mhic Lachainn; Taigh Dhòmhnaill Mhic Lachainn; (following houses in an t-Sraid Ruadh) Taigh Alasdair Nèill Oig agus Mòr Oig; Taigh nan Coinneamh; Taigh Oighrig (Effie MacKinnon, Farmhouse, Balemartine); (John Campbell); Taigh Mhic Griogair.
1998.138.6
The remains of St Patrick’s Chapel
Photograph of the remains of St Patrick’s Chapel on Kennavara.
Courtesy of Mr Donald MacKinnon
St Patrick’s Chapel, or Teampull Phàraig as it is known in Gaelic, lies on the Balephuil side of Kennavara within an irregular enclosure measuring one third of an acre. On the north and east boundaries are four scarped platforms, possibly the sites of huts. The site was probably a cashel or monastery of the Early Christian period.
The chapel stands in the south-west quarter of the enclosure and measures some 8 by 3.4 metres. Only part of the east gable survives; the rest of the walls are turf-covered footings. Against the centre of the east wall are the remains of an altar-base roughly one metre square. The visible masonry is of lime-mortared local rubble.
The Statistical Account of 1794 recorded that the walls stood 1.7 metres high. According to Ada Goodrich-Freer in her book ‘Outer Isles’, in 1898 the walls were ‘ruthlessly thrown down by two idle lads “for amusement”’.
Black and white photograph of St Patrick`s Chapel on Kennavara.
St Patrick`s Chapel on Kennavara.
1998.138.13
Black and white photograph of an outing up Kennavara in the 1930s.
Outing up Kennavara in the 1930s. L-R: Archie Sinclair, Kate MacKinnon and her daughter Ann, Niall Brownlie and his father John.
1998.138.20
Black and white photograph of sheep-dipping at Kennavara in 1933.
Sheep-dipping day for Barrapol at Kennavara in 1933.
1998.137.2
Black and white postcard of the fank at Kennavara in the 1930s.
The fank at Kennavara after sheep-dipping in the 1930s. L-R: (back) John MacGillivery`s wife; Niall Brownlie, Barrapol (Johann MacKinnon`s brother); John Brownlie (Johann and Niall`s father); D. C. MacKinnon, John MacGillivery`s half-brother; Margaret MacGillivery, John`s daughter; Hugh MacGillivery, John`s son; Marianne or Annie, John`s sister; John MacFadyen, Annabella MacNeill`s father; (front) Malcolm MacDonald, shepherd in Barrapol, Johann`s half-brother; John Wright; Donald MacLean, father of Hugh, Willie and Angus; Hugh MacKinnon (Eoghann Ban); Archie Sinclair, brother of Alasdair, A` Chachaleith Dhubh, Grianal; Willie MacNeill, from the Land who worked for the MacNivens.
1998.103.15
Black and white photograph of a pinic on Kennavara in 1938.
Picnic up Kennavara, 1938. L-R: (back row) Alasdair Kennedy, Kilmoluaig; Hughina MacDonald, Kilmoluaig, sister of Murdoch MacDonald, Kilmoluaig; John MacDonald, Kilmoluaig, brother of Mary Flora (14); Mary Ann MacKechnie, Kilmoluaig, wife of Donald (6); Calum MacPhail, Balephetrish, father of the late Hector MacPhail; Donald MacKechnie, Kilmoluaig, husband of Mary Ann (4); Mrs Campbell, wife of (9) and co-manager of Highlanders Institute, Glasgow; Neil MacLeod, Kilmoluaig, brother of Hugh, Cornaigbeg and father of Iain, Kilmoluaig; (front row) Mr Campbell, husband of (7) and co-manager of Highlanders Institute, Glasgow; Marion Maclean, Kilmoluaig, aunt to Alasdair Kennedy, Kilmoluaig and Glasgow; Archie MacDonald, Kilmoluaig, father of John (3) and Mary Flora (14); Mrs Kennedy, Kilmoluaig and Glasgow, mother of Peggy (13); Peggy Kennedy, Kilmoluaig and Glasgow; Mary Flora MacDonald, Kilmoluaig, sister of John (3); Hugh Kennedy, Kilmoluaig father of piper, Hugh.
1998.103.20
Black and white photograph of a picnic on Kennavara in 1938.
Picnic on Kennavara in 1938. Everyone went on Calum MacPhail`s lorry. L-R: (front row) Marion Maclean, Kilmoluaig, aunt to Alasdair Kennedy, Kilmoluaig and Glasgow; Maggie MacKechnie, daughter of Donald (7) and Mary Ann (5); Archie MacDonald, Kilmoluaig, father of John (4) and Mary Flora (13); Mrs Kennedy, Kilmoluaig and Glasgow, mother of Peggy (12); Peggy Kennedy, Kilmoluaig and Glasgow; Mary Flora MacDonald, Kilmoluig, sister of John (4) and daughter of Archie (10); (back) Mrs Campbell (manager of Highlanders Institute, Glasgow; Hugh Kennedy, piper, Sunshine Cottage, Kilmoluaig; Hughina MacDonald, Kilmoluaig, sister of Murdoch MacDonald; John MacDonald, Kilmoluaig, brother of Mary Flora (13); Mary Ann MacKechnie, Kilmoluaig, mother of Maggie (9); Calum MacPhail, Balephetrish, father of the late Hector MacPhail; Donald MacKechnie, Kilmoluaig, husband of Mary Ann (5) and father of Maggie (9).
2001.96.8
Laser print of a black and white photograph of Mary and Elizabeth Hume on the shores at Kennavara in the 1920s.
Mary Hume (front left) and her sister Elizabeth (back right), daughters of John Hume, manager of Heylipol Farm, ‘on the shores at Kennavara’. (From Myra Lamont’s photograph album of the 1920s.)
2001.96.9
Laser print of a black and white photograph of Elizabeth and Mary Hume on Kennavara in the 1920s.
On the top of Kennavara. Elizabeth Hume (sitting on rock at the back)) and her sister Mary (extreme right), daughters of John Hume, manager of Heylipol Farm. (From Myra Lamont’s photograph album of the 1920s.)
