Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Lismore. You may be able to find further references to Lismore in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Lismore	an island	Groome
Lismore	island	Bartholomew
Lismore and Appin	parish	Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Lismore.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ballachulish	a large but straggling village	Groome
Castle-Mearnaig or Castle-Glensanda	a ruined fortalice	Groome
Castle Rachal	ancient Scandinavian fortalice	Bartholomew
Castle-Rachal	a very ancient Scandinavian fortalice	Groome
Castle Shuna	ruined fortalice	Bartholomew
Castle-Shuna	a ruined fortalice	Groome
Castle-Stalker	an ancient square tower	Groome
Coe	a river	Groome
Ellan Munde	an islet	Groome
Fasnacloich	a mansion	Groome
Glencoe	a desolate defile	Groome
Glen Duror	glen	Bartholomew
Invercoe House	seat	Bartholomew
Kentallen	village	Bartholomew
Kentallen	a village	Groome
Kilmalieu	seat	Bartholomew
Kingairloch	hamlet	Bartholomew
Kingairloch	a hamlet	Groome
Kinlochlaich	seat	Bartholomew
Laroch Burn	stream	Bartholomew
Lettermore	place	Bartholomew
Musdale (or Musdile)	island	Bartholomew
Port Appin	village	Bartholomew
Port-Appin	a village	Groome
Portnacroish	village	Bartholomew
Sheep Isle		Bartholomew
Shuna	island	Bartholomew
Shuna	an island	Groome
Strath of Appin	school	Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Lismore within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Thomas Pennant	August 30-September 5: The Great Glen and Argyll	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Portramsay	0	2
Appin	0	2
Connel	0	2
Oban	19	2
Duart	0	3
Kingairloch	0	2
Kerrera	0	2
Ardchattan	0	2
Auchnacraig	0	2
Kilmore	0	2
Lochaline	0	2
Morvern	2	3
Taynuilt	0	2
Muckairn	0	2
Bonawe	0	3
Kilninver	0	2
Creran	0	3
Strontian	0	2
Duror	0	2
Torosay	0	2