Eilean Munde is a small uninhabited island in
Loch Leven, close to
Ballachulish.
It is the site of a chapel built by St. Fintan Mundus (also known as
Saint Fintan Munnu), who travelled here from
Iona in the 7th century. The church was burnt in 1495 and rebuilt in the 16th century. The last service in the church was held in July, 1653.
The island is the site of a graveyard once used by the
Stewarts of Ballachulish, the
MacDonalds of Glencoe and the
Camerons of
Callart. The clans shared the island and the maintenance of the graveyard, even when there was conflict between them. The last burial took place in 1972, of Mrs Christina MacDonald Sharpe, a native of
Glencoe.
Eilean a' Chomhraidh
Near Eilean Munde (or Mhunna) is a smaller island, Eilean a' Chomhraidh (Eilean na Comhairle) or the Isle of Discussion. This was the meeting-place of those persons who had disputes with their neighbours on the land question, and perhaps on other matters besides. When their disputes had been settled satisfactorily the erstwhile disputants sailed up the loch to Eilean na Bainne (about one-and-a-quarter miles west of Kinlochleven). This is the Isle of Covenant or Ratification; here the agreements were drawn up and sealed. Eilean na Bainne is spelled ''Ylen na Ban'' in
Timothy Pont
Rev Timothy Pont (c. 1560–c.1627) was a Scottish minister, cartographer and topographer. He was the first to produce a detailed map of Scotland. Pont's maps are among the earliest surviving to show a European country in minute detail, from an ...
's map of the area.
[Pont 13: National Library of Scotland]
Visit by Robert Forbes
On July 6, 1770, Bishop
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*Robert Forbes (bishop) (1708–1775), Scottish Episcopal bishop of Ross and Caithness
*Robert Bennet Forbes
Captain Robert Bennet F ...
sailed up Loch Leven. He records:
In a letter to Mr. Stewart of Ballachulish, dated
Leith
Leith (; gd, Lìte) is a port area in the north of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, founded at the mouth of the Water of Leith. In 2021, it was ranked by ''Time Out'' as one of the top five neighbourhoods to live in the world.
The earliest ...
, Nov. 15, 1770, after giving the history of the saint, as in the text, he proceeds:
References
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Uninhabited islands of Highland (council area)
Clan Donald
Lochaber
Glen Coe