Dervaig Village

The village goes back to Viking times with the name Dervaig meaning ‘good inlet’ and records of settlements here at the time in the twelve hundreds.

The standing stones above the village on the road to Tobermory show an earlier sign of settlement as does the ancient fort on top of a rocky knoll situated south east of the village. Just below the knoll are the remains of a village cleared in the 19c. The main part of the village was planned and established by Alexander MacLean of Coll in 1799 with the 26 houses along the Main Street, some shown in the picture above.

Kilmore Church, a few minutes walk from the Main Street, was built at the beginning of the twentieth century with its white pencil-shaped tower making the church the most identifiable on the island. Inside are seven stained glass windows, the one window dated about 1906, apparently produced by Stephen Adam, a leading Scottish stained glass artist who died in 1910.