Old Photograph Cemetery Inishail Loch Awe Scotland

Old photograph of the cemetery on Inishail, an island and former parish, in Loch Awe, Scotland. The parish is now part of the parish of Glen Orchy and Inishail. On a slight eminence are the fragments of the walls of the Chapel of St Fyndoca, and, perhaps, the remains of an ancient small convent or nunnery. The convent was said to be occupied by Cistercian nuns, and the property belonging to it was erected after the Protestant Reformation into a temporal lordship in favour of Hay, who had been Abbot of Inchaffray, but later became a Protestant. The burial ground has several ancient, carved tombstones, with sculptures and devices appropriate to ecclesiastics, warriors, knights, and a peer. Some graveslabs, those having figures of armed warriors and emblematical devices, may have been taken to the burial ground of Glenorchy Parish Church in Dalmally. While the principal burial place of the Dukes and Duchesses of Argyll is St Munn's Parish Church, Kilmun, the 11th and the 12th Dukes chose to be buried on the island of Inishail in Loch Awe.



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