Kathryn Howell has left her position as Development Manager of the Cumbrae Community Development Company to take up another career opportunity elsewhere. Gordon Black has started working in the
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As a regular visitor to Millport, I visited the "new" Garrison this August. A beautiful building, both inside and out, (even without the old tennis courts !), but I was left
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Arran, Bute, Greater and Little Cumbrae, Moray and the parts of Highland not already within the Crofting Counties are to be designated as new crofting areas. The move follows a public consultation
As Susan Swarbrick describes it in The Herald today: "It was a day when grown men openly shed a tear, even the most hardy confessing to a lump in the throat."
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17/4/2008Viking Power!
By Jim Nicholson Paterson
Was there a Viking Settlement on Cumbae? considering the Norwegians had sovereignty over all these islands until the Treaty of Perth 1266. Anybody know? JNP
- Sandy Morton says:
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To the best of my knowledge there are no signs of a Viking settlement on Cumbrae. However it is believed that mass was said before the Battle of Largs at a chapel adjacent to Balloch Bay and that King Haakon surveyed the battle from the mound at the ferry cottage. The Ladys Grave on the hill behind the slip is believed to be that of a young lady who died of grief after her partner was killed in the battle. Various grave kists are on the island but these all predate the Vikings by many centuries and are believed to be of Germanic origin.
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- Jim Nicholson Paterson says:
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What about Warrior Bay to the South of the Pier? We all know of the Runic Inscriptions on Holy Island, off Lamlash Bay, from the time of the Battle of Largs 1263, in one of the caves..............
