Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of the Celtic Cross and old parish Church and graveyard on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Kildalton, on the Island Of Islay, Inner Hebrides, Britain, United Kingdom. It was carved probably in the second half of the 8th century AD, and is closely related to crosses of similar date on Iona. It is often considered the finest surviving Celtic cross in Scotland, and is certainly one of the most perfect monuments of its date to survive on western Europe. The Kildalton Cross is sometimes called the Kildalton Great Cross or the Kildalton High Cross and stands 2.65 metres high by 1.32 metres wide. It is made from a single piece of a grey green coloured stone known as epidiorite, probably quarried at Port na Cille on the coast just under a mile to the south-east of where it now stands. The ruin of Kildalton Old Parish Church was heavily repaired in 1925 and again in the 1970s. It is probable that the church you see today dates back to the late 1100s or early 1200s. Internally it was a simple oblong, which was probably divided into a nave and a sanctuary by a wooden screen. In the ground within the church and around it are at least seventeen West Highland style recumbent grave slabs, in a range of patterns in common use during the 1300s and 1400s. The presence of the Kildalton Cross in the churchyard shows that there was a religious foundation at Kildalton for many centuries before the church whose remains still stand was built, and the grandeur of the cross is a strong indication that Kildalton was home to an important early monastery. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome.
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