Grave Slabs On Visit To St Oran's Chapel Island Of Iona Inner Hebrides Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video clip, with Scottish music, of grave slabs on visit to the medieval St Oran's Chapel on the Island of Iona, Inner Hebrides. The chapel is a plain oblong building measuring 30 feet by 16 feet internally. The body of the chapel may belong to the 9th or 10th century's but the West doorway is an insertion which dates from not earlier than the middle of the 12th century. Kenneth MacAlpin was buried in the Reilig Orain here in the middle of the 9th century, as were succeeding Scottish kings until Macbeth who died in 1057, and traditionally kings of Ireland, Norway and France. None of the monuments of the kings remains but many of medieval clan chiefs survive. A number of carved monumental slabs to Clan Chiefs are preserved in the chapel, the roof of which has been restored. Oran or Odran, who died AD 548, is by tradition a descendant of Conall Gulban, who was a companion of Saint Columba in Iona, and the first Christian to be buried on that island. St. Odhrán's feast day is on 27 October. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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