Spring Drive To St Adamnan's Episcopal Church On Visit To Blair Atholl Highland Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a May road trip drive to St Adamnan's Scottish Episcopal Church at Kilmaveonaig on ancestry visit to Blair Atholl in Highland, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish chapel was rebuilt in 1794 by John Stewart on the site of the old parish church of Kilmaveonaig built in 1591. Enlarged 1899 by the addition of the battlemented Gothic porch. Lorimer reredos added 1912. Old bell 1629, from Little Dunkeld church. The Scottish Episcopal Church, Scottish Gaelic: Eaglais Easbaigeach na h-Alba; Scots: Scots Episcopal Kirk, is the ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Communion in Scotland. Adomnán or Adamnán of Iona, Latin: Adamnanus, Adomnanus; also known as Eunan from Irish Naomh Ádhamhnán was born about 624, a relative on his father's side of Saint Columba. He was a member of the Northern Uí Néill lineage Cenél Conaill. He was the son of Rónán mac Tinne by Ronat, a woman from another Northern Uí Néill lineage known as the Cenél nÉnda. Adomnán's birthplace was probably in or near Raphoe, a town in what later became Tír Chonaill, now mainly County Donegal) in Ulster in the north of Ireland. Some of Adomnán's childhood anecdotes seem to confirm at least an upbringing in this fertile eastern part of present day County Donegal, not far from the modern city of Derry. In 679, Adomnán became the ninth abbot of Iona after Columba. Abbot Adomnán enjoyed a friendship with King Aldfrith of Northumbria. In 684, Aldfrith had been staying with Adomnán in Iona. In 686, after the death of Aldfrith's brother King Ecgfrith of Northumbria and Aldfrith's succession to the kingship, Adomnán was in the Kingdom of Northumbria on the request of King Fínsnechta Fledach of Brega in order to gain the freedom of sixty Gaels who had been captured in a Northumbrian raid two years before. Adomnán died in 704, and became a saint in Scottish and Irish tradition, as well as one of the most important figures in either Scottish or Irish history. His death and feast day are commemorated on 23 September. Along with Columba, he is joint patron of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Raphoe, which encompasses the bulk of County Donegal in the north west of Ireland. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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