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Dist:0.3km<br/>Photo taken looking south-westwards from near the road which runs almost the full length of the island of Lismore and which can be seen passing to the left of the house in the centre of the picture. On the right is Kilcheran Loch, the nearer part of which lies within this gridsquare.
©Eileen Henderson
Dist:0.4km<br/>
©William Starkey
Dist:0.4km<br/>A sad reminder of the Clearances which convulsed the southern half of Lismore between 1840 and 1845, instigated by a William Cheyney who unfortunately was a typical 19th century landlord in the Highlands and Islands.
©Euan Nelson
Dist:0.7km<br/>A view across Kilcheran Loch on the Isle of Lismore
©William Starkey
Dist:0.7km<br/>"Kilcheran" is an anglicisation of "Cill Chiarain" and remembers a Celtic monk called Ciaran.
©Euan Nelson
Dist:0.7km<br/>The B8045 runs almost the whole length of the island of Lismore, from north-east to south-west. The island is mainly agricultural land, as can be seen from the piles of silage bales at the roadside.
©Eileen Henderson
Dist:0.7km<br/>Between 1840 and 1845, 3000 acres of southern Lismore was cleared of almost 400 people and the land converted for sheep farming.
©Euan Nelson
Dist:0.7km<br/>A steep bank separates the road down the south-east of Lismore from Kilcheran Loch, but a short scramble up the slope gives this view towards the higher ground in the centre of the island.
©Eileen Henderson
Dist:0.8km<br/>An aerial view of about two thirds of Lismore Island co-ordinated on Kilcheran Loch in the top half of the image.
©Stephen Branley
Dist:1.1km south<br/>
©Gordon Brown
Dist:1.1km south<br/>The island on the left is Eilean na Cloiche, the Island in the distance on the right is Eilean nan Gamhna. Eilean na Cloiche is linked to Eilean Dubh by a Isthmus which is a beach.
©Michael Jagger
Dist:1.1km south<br/>From a distance this rock formation looks distinctly man-made. On closer approach it is a large rock tower, perhaps 40 to 50 feet high but not clearly shown on the OS mapping.
©Gordon Brown
Dist:1.2km south<br/>It is possible that this rock stack was made when the sea level was higher than it is at the present day. This picture was taken about 2 to 3 metres above the present sea level.
©Michael Jagger
Dist:1.2km southwest<br/>This ruin sits at the foot of a limestone cliff. Lismore is unusual, for the Scottish Highlands and Islands, in being made up mainly of limestone.
©Eileen Henderson
Dist:1.2km south<br/>Eilean na Cloiche (on the left) is joined to Eilean Dubh on the right edge of the photo, by an isthmus formed as a storm beach by southwesterly swells running up the Lynn of Lorn and into the shallow bay between the two islands. Spray will undoubtedly break over the isthmus, but the tide never covers it, so it is not quite a tombolo. The beach provides a handy landing for sea kayaks (some of our group needed a stop to don more clothing as the evening cooled down and the wind built up), but gives more shelter on the far side, so we paddled round Eilean Dubh to reach it.
©Andy Waddington

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