Lismore, Port Ramsay, General

NM 88 45. This village (Plates 118B, D) stands close to the NE tip of Lismore, overlooking the best anchorage in the island (NSA, vii (Argyll), 229). Port Ramsay was thus well situated for the prosecution of the two enterprises to which it owed its development in the 19th century, namely the local fishing-industry and the export of lime (OSA, I (1791), 500; NSA, vii (Argyll), 251; Third Stat. Acct. (Argyll), 64). The village comprises a single row of cottages standing close to the water's edge. These cottages are plain single-storeyed dwellings of rubble masonry with lime-washed walls and slate roofs, and each contains two main rooms. The principal limestone-quarries lie immediately to the NE of the village, where there is also a quay and a pair of lime-kilns (Plate 118c). Another group of quarries with an associated kiln may be seen on the opposite side of the bay, beyond Fennacrochan.

RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1968.