Chapel Inch Kenneth Island On History Visit Off The West Coast Of The Isle of Mull Scotland

Tour Scotland short travel clip with Scottish music, of a ruined chapel on Inch Kenneth, Scottish Gaelic: Innis Choinnich, a small grassy island on ancestry, genealogy, history visit off the west coast of the Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides. It is located at the entrance of Loch na Keal, to the south of Ulva. The island is named after Saint Kenneth, a follower of Saint Columba, who is said to have founded a monastery and chapel on the island. The island was visited in 1773 by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell during their tour of the Hebrides; they were entertained there by Sir Allan MacLean, head of the Maclean clan. In the 1930s the island was owned by Sir Harold Boulton, 2nd Baronet, the writer of the words to the Skye Boat Song. The island's most celebrated owner in the twentieth century was the eccentric Mitford family. Nazi sympathiser Unity Mitford spent her final years on the island. Following the death of their father Lord Redesdale, the island was inherited under Scots law by the surviving Mitford sisters and not his wife, as Lord Redesdale had willed it to his only son Tom, who had predeceased him. When their mother died in 1963, Nancy gave her share to Jessica, who bought the shares of Diana, Deborah and Pamela. Jessica, a former communist, teasingly suggested that it might become a Soviet submarine base. The island was sold by Jessica in the late 1960s to Andrew Barlow, son of Sir Alan Barlow, 2nd Baronet. It remains with their family. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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