 Bowmore Church & Cemetery |
 Kildalton Cemetery |
 Ardnave headlands |
Kilchoman Cemetery |
Isle of Islay
Cemetery Database
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Compiled by Sue Visser from
Transcriptions, Extracts and Abstracts With special thanks toNorm Visser for his patience and support [email protected] list members Additions, and, or corrections are welcome Please forward them to Sue (McCuaig) Visser
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Kilnave Cemetery
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Kilarrow Cemetery
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Kilnaughton Cemetery
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THE BIRTH OF THE ISLAY GRAVESTONE INFORMATION DATABASE
As a researcher of Islay history and genealogy for decades, I have accumulated information about Islay gravestones from personal visits, available transcriptions and online friends. Whenever I needed to access information, this led to searches through piles of papers and FRUSTRATION...there had to be a better way! My love of Islay encourages me to continue to save its history as I am able from a distance. Won’t you join the effort? Sue (McCuaig) Visser
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Walking through Islay cemeteries, you cannot help but worry about the loss of historical information by the deterioration of the stones by the lichen |
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Ancient groundstones found at Loch Finlaggan. Members of the Lords of the Isles family were buried here. The Lords are buried at Iona |
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Kildalton Cross is the only surviving complete Celtic High Cross in Scotland. It was carved about AD 800 from local blue stone that resists the growth of lichen, unlike most other gravestones |
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