Tour Scotland short travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the old parish church and burial ground at Kirkapol on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Isle of Tiree, Scottish Gaelic: Tiriodh, in the Inner Hebrides. The parish church of Kirkapoll first comes on record in 1375; it was dedicated to Saint Columba. It is not known when this site was abandoned as a place of worship, but the church may have continued in use into the 18th century. The roofless remains of this church stand on the North side of a small enclosed burial ground. Baithéne mac Brénaind, also known as Saint Baoithin and Saint Buadán was an Irish monk, one of Saint Columba's followers who accompanied him to Scotland around 563 and was the first successor of the abbacy of Iona. Baithéne served as prior over a monastery connected to Iona on the island of Tiree. The monastery was a house for penitents from Iona. Saint Columba told a monk who was heading to Tiree that he should not sail directly from Iona to Tiree, because a great whale would frighten him, but his did not listen to his advice and took the direct route, and a huge whale came out of the water and almost destroyed the boat, which terrified those in the boat. When Baithéne departed the following day to Tiree, Columba told him about the whale, and Baithéne responded that both he and the whale were in God's power, to which Columba responded " Go in peace, your faith in Christ will shield you from danger. " And so Baithéne then took the direct route to Tiree and the whale came out of the water which terrified all in the boat, except Baithéne, who used his hands to bless the sea and the whale, and the whale then went down into the water.
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