View of eight small photographs variously identified. The top two images are variously identified. The left image is a wide view of a cottage, specific location is unknown, on Colonsay Argyll. The rig ...

Description View of eight small photographs variously identified. The top two images are variously identified. The left image is a wide view of a cottage, specific location is unknown, on Colonsay Argyll. The right image is of an entrance to an unknown long building. The upper-central two images are both identified. The left image is a wide-angle view of the ruins of Oronsay priory, Oronsay, Argyll. The right image is a wide-angle view of the ruins of Inishail Old Parish Church and the surrounding Loch Awe, Argyll. The lower-central two images are both identified. The left image is a 'birds-eye' view of Oronsay Priory ruins, Oronsay, Argyll. The right image is a wide-view of Kilchurn Castle and the surrounding Loch Awe, Argyll. There is additionally a male figure pushing a boat onto the loch in the foreground. The lower two images are unidentified. The left image is of a rock formation, probably in Colonsay, and the right image is a view of the head of a bull, again probably Colonsay. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM No. 187, (cf PAs 186 and 188) Rev. J.B. MacKenzie of Colonsay Albums,1870, vol.2.

Date c. 1861 to 1911

Collection General Collection. Photograph Albums.

Catalogue Number DP 157297

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of PA 187/15

Scope and Content These albums were owned by Revd. JB Mackenzie, minister of Colonsay 1861-72 and of Kenmore 1872-1911. They contain large, high quality photographs taken in the late 1860s and early 1870s and were at one time in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries. Many of them show rock formations on Colonsay and carved stones there and at Oronsay, Keills, Loch Swyn and other locations in Knapdale. At one cross at Keills a man with a gun is posed beside a lady with a small coggie and four sheep. There is a view of the village and ruins of Kilmory, Point of Knap with a man sitting on an upturned basket with a rather blurred horse. Other ruins at Ealan Naomh include “an oven-shaped building locally regarded as the tomb of St. Columba’s mother.”

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