View of two photographs, both are wide-angled views of the Colonsay shoreline looking eastwards from Colonsay Manse to Jura with the 'Paps of Jura' captured in the distance. The upper image also conta ...

Description View of two photographs, both are wide-angled views of the Colonsay shoreline looking eastwards from Colonsay Manse to Jura with the 'Paps of Jura' captured in the distance. The upper image also contains a small figure looking in the same direction as the photograh. 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 157312

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of PA 187/27

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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