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Notes on the use of Lios Mòr/Lismore for burials, September 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/77
Scope and Contents

Notes on the use of Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire for burials, including that people would come from Inbhir Aora/Inveraray and the surrounding country to bury their dead, that Dun fraoin and Tor-an-aolaich, at the north end of Achnacrois were big burial sites [Dùn Fraoin, Tòrr an Aolaich and Achnacroish]. A man called Cheyne offended Roman Catholics by taking two cartloads of bones from Uamh Dhùn Fraoin to the Roman Catholic burial ground.

Dates: September 1870

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  • Language: Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic X
  • Subject: Lismore Argyllshire Scotland X
  • Names: Cheyne, James Auchinleck, 1795-1853 (writer to the signet | Lismore | Argyllshire) X