IONA ABBEY & CLAN DONALD
IAN ROSS MACDONNELL
  • PURPOSE OF SITE
  • 1.] ABBEY: KINGS/LORDS ENDOW-FINANCE & SUPERINTEND-BUILD.
    • 2) "THE McDONALD" ABBEY HEIRS: Feudal tenure -"Functional Reciprosity".
    • 3) ABBEY "COLLAPSED, IMPOVERISHED": Heirs enforce "Conditionality of Endowment". *MACDONALDS raise Cathedral.
  • 1.] OVERVIEW - PAMPHLET
    • (2.) Charts of Kings/Lords of Isles & Iona
    • (3.) Summary of book's findings.
  • BOOK "CLAN DONALD & IONA ABBEY" - FULL CONTENTS LISTED HERE
    • INTRODUCTION
    • 1. Somerled
    • 2. Reginald
    • 3. Rauri
    • 4. Donald - Clan Founder
    • 5. Eirinn, Birthplace of Somereld and Clan Donald.
    • 6. Most Ancient Graveyard in all Scotland
    • EPILOGUE: Purgatory->Indulgences-> Reformation
  • 1.] IONA INTERPRETATION FAULTS
    • (2.) Main issue is with 5th and 8th Earls of Argyll
  • 1.] ST ORAN'S CEMETERY
    • (2.) Teampeall Odhrain. Tumulus Regum Insularum - Tomb of the King of the Isles
    • (3) Secondary burial - "tradition of the country"
  • 1.] KINGS & LORDS OF THE ISLES - GRAVESLAB ATTRIBUTION
    • [2] BURIAL INTERPRETATION, BODY PARTS, MONUMENT LOCATIONS and ATTRIBUTIONS >
      • a. "FULL NOBLE BODY" - "Good John" eviscerated?
    • [3] Other notable Clan Donald inscibed monuments
  • ANGUS OG's GRAVESLAB No. 150 - SAVIOR OF "THE BRUCE"
  • 1.] ECCLESIASTICAL MACALLISTER NOBLEMEN
    • (2.) Their descent from Alaxandair OG (complete Attachment) >
      • Chart A. From Alaxandair OG, k.1299, Undeposed Chief
      • Chart B. Alaster MOR (is NOT their ancestor)
      • Chart C. Abbots of Iona and Saddell
  • 1.] "HAND OF ST COLUMBA" BODY PART RELIQUARY
    • (2.) Golden Chalice, Plunder of Iona - Macleans of Duart & Glengarry
  • 1.] CATHEDRAL OF THE ISLES RAISED BY LORDS OF ISLES
    • (2.) Plaque for Clan Donald's Cathedral of the Isles.
  • 1.] ARGYLL EARLS STRIP, DESTROY AND PLUNDER IONA
    • (2.) 8th Duke of Argyll "Recrudescence of Romanism" >
      • 3. 19th century looting
  • 20th CENTURY IONA ABBEY RESTORATION
  • IONA COMMUNITY
  • HISTORIC SCOTLAND IONA INTERPRETATION RESEARCH CONFERENCE
  • CLAN DONALD SERVICE, MICHAEL CHAPEL
  • 1.] THE BOOK'S DEVELOPMENT & AUTHOR
    • (2.) SUMMARY of book's findings
    • (3.) Comments about book
  • 1.] BIBLIOGRAPHY
    • [2]. FILES OF MINE - LINKS
    • RANALDUS
  • NEWSLETTERS
  • MAPS
  • WEB SITES
  • CONTACT - BUY BOOK
  • BLOG
    • FREDERICK JOHN GRICE; ANZAC-100
  • GLOSSARY
  • Clan Donald Society Genealogy
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ARGYLL EARLS,  "LEADERS IN THE FIELD OF THE REFORMED RELIGION" :-
THEY ASSET STRIP, SUPPRESS, PLUNDER AND DESTROY IONA
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     The  "empty, greedy capacious maws"  of the 1st, 5th and 8th Earls of Argyll  (or any Campbell Earl) NEVER contributed anything whatsoever over 300 years to the foundation donations and set up costs, the land endowments (perpetual financing = rents/tithes, etc), building, materials, resources, labour, maintenance, rebuilding, arts, education,  industries, protection, welfare, etc - IE, THEY NEITHER GAVE, NOR INVESTED, NOR CONTRIBUTED ANYTHING AT ALL  TO IONA ABBEY  {or any abbey!}, BUT THEY :-​

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Archibald 8th Earl; First Marquess
  •  Heavily partake of "the fruits" of Iona Abbey {pps 330-331};

    • With unconscionable avarice, and  destroying any notion of what good the Protestant Reformation stood for,  they regarded the Abbey's income as their hereditary "family propriety interest." 

    • An astounding  double standard from the Reformation 'leader in the field' and a selfish, unprincipled contravention to both Martin Luther’s “Two Kingdoms” for separation of Church and State, and John Knox’s “First Book of Discipline” that all of the assets of the old church should pass to the new!

    • "At St Andrews, Knox met by appointment (1559) with the Prior of the Augustinian monastery, the well known Lord James Stewart, and with Archibald the  fifth Earl of Argyll. But I must pause here a moment to make a few remarks on these the two most influential of the lay Reformers of Scotland, the first of whom was, at this time, only twenty six years old, and the latter no more than eighteen; both, it must  be confessed far too young and inexperienced, and as  the event proved, too greedy of "filthy lucre," to conduct so momentous a work as the Reformation of the  Christian Church."     "History of St Andrews - VOL I"; p.330; Rev. Lyon CJ, Presbyter of the Episcopal Church, St Andrews; 1843.

  • “Bombarded with cannon"  MacLean JP; "History of the Clan MacLean"; 1889;  p.318. {In 1887 he went to the Island of Mull in Scotland to collect material for his "History of the Macleans}

    "The month of May of the memorable year 1559. In consequence of a sermon which KNOX preached at Perth, the multitude rose en mane, and destroyed the Carthusian, Franciscan, and Dominican monasteries in that town". (History of St Andrews; p.329)

    "1561, when an Act of the Convention of Estates was passed "for demolishing all the abbeys of monks and friars, and or suppressing what so ever monuments of idolatrie were remaining in the realm." In compliance with this edict, lona shared the fate of nearly all the other cathedrals of Scotland.  The monastery was bombarded with cannon...." 

     "The carrying out of this act was remitted to Argyll and Glencairn, and much has been written with regard to the great damage caused by the mob to the building and monuments and the valuable library".  -  MacGibbon, David;   Ross, Thomas.  "Ecclesiastical architecture of Scotland from the earliest Christian times to the seventeenth century;  p.48;   1896-97.

    BBC : The Scottish Reformation​:-  "Knox was roused from exile and returned to Scotland, preaching a sermon against idolatry in Perth which unleashed a seething Protestant mob.  Iconoclasm, the destruction of religious images,  swept the nation.  In St Andrews the army of the Lords of the Congregation stripped the altars, smashed the icons, destroyed the relics and whitewashed the walls of its churches over night.​​​"​​
  • Overthrew on Iona “some of the finest monuments of the monastery and the altars”;
    • Suppressing “Idolatori and all monumentis thairof”.

  • "Lost" 300 irreplaceable grave-slab inscriptions compiled in the 1650's  of "the best men of all the Isles" from St Oran's cemetery  (MacDonald, McLean, MacKinnon, McLeod, MacSporran, etc, etc). The large majority, ie, about 270, which couldn't be subsequently read, even in the 19th century, and the vital historic details therefore unable to be recorded from the actual, worn graveslabs.  Another aspect of the Campbell's "Daunting of the Isles"?

  • It is vital in understanding this history to not separate the destruction of Clan Donald, the “Daunting of the Isles” to end “400 years of barbarism” and the destruction of Iona Abbey
    by the 5th and 8th Earls of Argyll. Their acts were utterly integral. Once all “the fruits” of the abbey were stripped, including by seven successive Earl of Argyll’s Commondators (Argyll's “property managers”) and the wealth transfer mainly to the reforming Calvinist elite had occurred, the edifice that was created by Clan Donald, its ecclesiastical capital and Cathedral of the Isles in all but name, needed to be ‘erased’ from memory - like the papists and the highland barbarous savages. (The McLeans, MacGill-Eathain, also had many such successive Commondators. They had all entered “the monastery rather by reason of succession than from devotion”..).   Iona abbey is but a pastiche between 1493-1561.


“Thus have the revenues of the ancient primacy of Scotland, founded by kings and prelates for the most holy of purposes, and amply endowed by a succession of noble and pious individuals, passed through a variety of secular hands since the Reformation, and been applied to various private purposes.” "History of St Andrews - VOL II"; p.146; Rev. Lyon CJ, Presbyter of the Episcopal Church, St Andrews; 1843.

COMPLETE CHAPTER HERE
Pamphlet - Brief Overview, includes above issues
Further historic settings   - See "Introduction"
Additional context, summation  - See "Epilogue".
Photographic Collections   - DIGITOOL  (Aberdeen Uni).   (Use "search" - Iona.)  George Washington Wilson.  The George Washington Wilson collection contains over 37,000 images taken during the second half of the 19th century in the UK, Africa and Australia.

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IAN  R.  MACDONNELL,   MELBOURNE,  AUSTRALIA -  DEC 2012.     ©    International rights reserved : Moral, Economic, Attribution.                                                                                                                                                          
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