Unearthing Lismore and Scotland's 'Secret' Saint | Dig It! TV

Hop on a ferry to the Isle of Lismore with Saga and dig into the story of Saint Moluag, one of Scotland’s best-kept secrets.
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Credits:
Host - Saga Binnie
Director of Photography - Doug Rocks-Macqueen
Production Assistant - Quonya Huff
Dig It! TV Instigators - Joshua Graham and Samuel Gerace
Music - Monument Rising by Jens Kiilstofte (machinimasound.com/)
Special thanks to everyone at Coman Eachdraidh Lios Mor (The Lismore Historical Society) and Lismore Parish Church
Lismore Nave project generously funded by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Hunter Archaeological and Historical Trust and the MacDougall McCallum Heritage Foundation
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Photos:
Saint Columba - Photo by byronv2 on Foter.com / CC BY-NC
Saint Moluag - Photo by marian_ey on Foter.com / CC BY-NC
View from Tirefour Broch - Photo by Rodents rule on Foter.com / CC BY-NC
Rosemarkie Beach on the Black Isle peninsula of Ross & Cromarty
Scotland - Photo by conner395 on Foter.com / CC BY
Saint Andrew in Saint Andrew - Photo by Lawrence OP on Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND
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Funded by Historic Environment Scotland
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[@davidblack8020]

Where can we stay on Lismore

[@DigItTV]

Hi David. We're glad that you're interested in visiting when we can travel again. The Isle of Lismore Community Website has some suggestions: isleoflismore.com/accommodation

[@davewatson309]

Surely Lismore was not yet conquered by the Gaels of Dalriada therefore not part of. The Gaels had at this point been beaten and the compassionate intervention of Kentigern prevented their annihilation. But Columba appointed Aidan, referred to in the Welsh triads as most treacherous who resumed Gaelic expansion burning Man.

[@DigItTV]

Thanks for the question, Dave. We spoke to Saga, who said “Lismore was definitely part of Dál Riata by the mid-6th century and the idea of the Irish Gaels ‘conquering’ the north west coast of Scotland is being challenged - I would recommend ‘Were The Scots Irish?’ by Dr Ewan Campbell for a really accessible look at this theory. Overall it’s also really important to remember that a lot of our information about this period comes from piecing together fragmentary manuscripts and hagiographies (accounts of the lives of saints, which were written to emphasise the holiness of the subject) so we have to interpret them carefully - that means different people often come to different conclusions on reading them!”. We hope that helps.

[@davewatson309]

And yet metaphorically Columba and Moluag had a race, neck and neck till Moluag chopped his finger off and threw it ahead saying the land had belonged to his flesh and blood long before Columba's. There was a Pictish capital across the Loch. Argyll has some of British Place names. The Gaels had surely only just arrived in the North of Ireland and were surrounded by Picts. Pen, head ceann, cruithne, pict, bruithne, Briton. Even Ninian, hardly mentioned in Scottish records is massive for the early Irish pictish Church.

[@davewatson309]

Many thanks for the reply and I hope my comments don't seem too flippant. I shall check the book out. Could I task you to dig out and make public some inaccessible writing by the learned Edward Lhuyd, the first to articulate the relations of the Celtic languages, Breton, Cornish, Manx, Irish and Scottish Gaelic. I have read what is accessible. He travelled north before the Union when Cumbri and Galwegian where still spoken and said Galwegian was the most similar to Welsh. I cannot find the source anywhere, perhaps you with your access can, sincerely

[@DigItTV]

@@davewatson309 No worries. We're glad that you're interested in the topic! We'll make a note of your idea although it might be a while before we're filming again.

[@yehudimcewan5167]

Wee question. Do you think Moluag already spoke Pictish when he arrived on lismore or he learned it there being so close to them?
Thanks