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View of nine small photographs variously identified. The top two images are both unidentified and are an image of a ruined building, left, and a small cottage or farm, right. The upper-central two im ...
PA 187/13
Description View of nine small photographs variously identified. The top two images are both unidentified and are an image of a ruined building, left, and a small cottage or farm, right. The upper-central two images are both identified. The left image is of the ruins of Castle Sween and the surrounding cliff face in North Knapdale. The right image is of the back and gardens of Poltalloch country house, Kilmartin. The lower-central two images and variously identified. The left image is again a wider view of the ruins of Castle Sween and landscape surroundings in North Knapdale. The right image is an unidentified building, possible a lodge. The lower three images are unidentified. The left image is of the side of a cottage and the central and right image are portraits of flowers. 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 PA 187/13
Category All Other
Copy of PA 187
Copies DP 157295
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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