Tour Scotland Travel Video Island Of The Dead Loch Leven Highlands

Tour Scotland travel video Blog of Eilean Munde, also known as the Island Of The Dead, a small island in Loch Leven, close to Ballachulish, on ancestry visit to the Scottish Highlands of Scotland. The island is the site of a graveyard once used by the Stewarts of Ballachulish, the MacDonalds of Glencoe and the Camerons of Callart. The clans shared the island and the maintenance of the graveyard, even when there was conflict between them. The last burial took place in 1972, of Mrs Christina MacDonald Sharpe, a native of Glencoe. It is also the site of a chapel built by St. Fintan Mundus, also known as Saint Fintan Munnu, who travelled here from Iona in the 7th Century. The church was burnt in 1495 and rebuilt in the 16th Century. The last service in the church was held in July, 1653. The grave of a legendary chief of the MacDonald clan: Alastair MacIain, 12th Chief of Glencoe is here. He had travelled though the wilderness of Glencoe to Fort William to swear fealty to the King. The governor there refused to take the oath and sent the old chief through the winterstorms to Inverary to make his oath there. With a letter stating he had been in time but in the wrong place. MacDonald believed he was safe. But the Campells persuaded the King to order the MacDonald’s death.

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