Black and white photograph of Lady Ferguson.
Lady Ferguson with Penny the dog, probably taken at the Kirkapol chapels.
1997.159.23
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Township: kirkapol
1997.148.5
Black and white postcard of the Kirkapol Lodge, 1920s.
The Lodge at Kirkapol showing the original entrance in around the 1920s. The child in the photograph is probably Elizabeth Milne, the grandaughter of Lady Frances Balfour, the sister of the Duke of Argyll.
1997.148.18
Colour photograph of the Lodge Hotel.
The Lodge Hotel, Kirkapol.
2002.140.1
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.
1997.128.1
Photocopied extract from `Origines Parociales Scotiae`, 1850, pp 327-31.
History of the parishes of Soroby and Kirkapol from 1292 – 1635.
2002.130.2
Black and white photograph of group at the Lodge.
Group photograph taken at the Lodge in the 1910s or 1920s. L-R: (back row) Malcolm MacLean (Calum Dhomhnaill Og), Lighthouse View; Mairi Anna MacLean (Malcolm`s sister); John MacKinnon (Iain Dhomhnaill – `Faithful John`), Lodge Farm; Anna Campbell (Anna an Loidse – Rosie MacIntyre`s mother); Jessie MacPhee (Duncan MacPhee`s mother); Calum a` Ghobhainn (Rosie`s father); Dugy Mary MacDonald; Seumas a` Ghobhainn; Alice Lauder; `bodach nam picture`; (front row) Peigi Eairdsidh; Bean Ailein MacFadyen, Gott; Iain Campbell (Rosie`s godfather), Bunessan; Floraidh, bean Dhomhnaill MacPhaill; Eachann MacInnes; Iain Eoghainn MacPhaill; Nancy Barrett; Vaul, Lady Frances Balfour`s dog. (Original in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 1)
2002.113.3
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.
2002.113.4
Newspaper article `Tiree`s grave discovery` about the Kirkapol chapels.
Discovery of mass grave at one of the Kirkpol chapels.
2002.85.1
Colour photograph of the Rev. Robert and Mrs Di Higham.
Rev. Robert Higham and his wife Di outside Kirkapol Church in 2001
2002.69.9
The small chapel at Kirkapol
Photograph of the small chapel at Kirkapol in 2001.
Courtesy of Rev. Robert Higham
The smaller and older of the two medieval chapels at Kirkapol was probably dedicated to St Brendan. It stands on a rocky knoll about 80 metres north of the larger chapel which originally served as the island’s Parish Church. Both chapels are constructed from random rubble laid in lime mortar.
The small chapel is a simple oblong in plan with gables to the east and west and measures 7 by 3.5 metres internally. The flat but uneven surface of the rock it stands on serves as the floor.
The south wall of the chapel has partially collapsed but there is still a round-arch door in the west wall. A narrow slit window in the north wall lights what would have been the altar area at the east end.
Colour photograph of one of the Kirkapol chapels.
The smaller of the two Kirkapol chapels, possibly called St Brendan`s, photographed in 2001.