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
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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY.
In  three parts  :  

(A ) -  Historical accounts of Iona, chronologically. 
(B)  - Three key subject matters .  
(C)  -  Additional general bibliography.

   A.      SOME HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS OF  IONA –  16th to 20th centuries
                                                     CHRONOLOGICALLY.


   
15th Century  (late).


1493
- LORDSHIP OF ISLES COLLAPSES   (MCLEANS, MACKINNONS, CAMPBELLS, TAKE OVER IONA.)

 16th Century  

 
REFORMATION –

1549. MONRO, DONALD – VISITED IONA c.1549 .


Description of the Occidental, ie Western Isles of Scotland
.

1570 –1580  BUCHANAN, GEORGE – VISITED IONA  1570-80.


 THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND; First Pub. in Latin 1582.

17th  Century
.

1642
 - MORE DESTRUCTION IN IONA (CIVIL WAR)

1688  SACHEVERELL, WILLIAM (Governor of Isle of Man) – VISITED IONA 1688.


 Account of the isle of man and  a voyage to i-columb-kill 1688 ; first Pub. 1702.

1695. MARTIN, MARTIN – VISITED IONA c. 1695   EXAMINED,  recorded SLAB No 150 (The first known).
 
A description of the western isles of scotland ca 1695; Pub. 1703.

1699-1700  LHUYD, EDWARD – VISITED IONA 1699-1700. EXAMINED/Recorded SLAB No. 150

 Edward Lhuyd in The Scottish Highlands 1699-1700; Campbell/Thompson; Pub. 1963


 
18th  Century
.

1764  WALKER, REV. DR. JOHN – VISITED IONA 1764.  
Report on The Hebrides; (Examined the “King’s Tombs”; only one remaining mostly intact and he gave inside measurements. )

1772  PENNANT, THOMAS – VISITED IONA 1772.  
EXAMINED/recorded SLAB No 150

 A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides 1772; Pub 1776.

1793 - 1808  McDONALD JAMES A.M. – VISITED IONA (SEVEN VOYAGES BETWEEN 1793 AND 1808). 
EXAMINED/recorded SLAB No 150

 GENERAL VIEW OF THE AGRICULTURE OF THE HEBRIDES; 1811. pps 702-03.

19th  Century


1845
– “THE NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SCOTLAND – ARGYLE   - By the Ministers of the respective Parishes”.

1847  :  The Architecture of The Abbey Church of Iona ; JC and CA Buckler, Architects, Oxford; VISITED IONA 1847.

1850  -
Guide to the Highlands and islands of Scotland including Orkney and Zetland,….etc. G Anderson and P Anderson; p596.   3rd Ed.  1850.

1850  -  HD GRAHAM - visited IONA 1847-1850.    Antiquities of Iona; 1850.

1868 – 1870.  DRUMMOND. VISITED IONA 1868, 1870.
EXAMINED/recorded SLAB No 150

Archaeologia scotica: Sculptured monuments in Iona and the West Highlands
; James Drummond. Published 1881.

1891  MACMILLAIN ARCHIBOLD; BRYDEL, ROBERT, 1891.   
IONA: Its History, Antiquities, etc.

20th Century


1907-08   TRENHOLME, EDWARD CRAIG REV.– VISITED IONA  1907-8. EXAMINED/recorded SLAB No 150. 
Rev. Edward Craig Trenholme, who was born in Quebec, studied in England, and became a monk at Oxford in England. 

The Story of Iona
; Pub 1909.

1913
   MACALISTER, R.A.S. – VISITED IONA 1913. EXAMINED /RECORDED SLAB No 150.  An inventory of the ancient monuments remaining in the island of Iona, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 48: pps 421-30.

1968   Dr WD LAMONT;  1968. 
  Ancient & Medieval Sculptured Stones of Islay; 1968; pps 30-31..

1977  DR’S  STEER & BANNERMAN  (S&B);  Published 1977.
“
Late medieval monumental sculpture in the West Highlands”(LMMSWH) by K. A. Steer and J. W. M. Bannerman .

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                                                                              B

B (i)        DEATH & BURIAL (& BODY PARTS) :  RITUAL, CUSTOM, REGAL “BODY POLITIC” AND TRANSITION OF KINGSHIP.   (ALPHABETICAL)


Archaeology of death and burial
;  Parker-Pearson, Michael. 1999.

Archaeology of death
;    Randsborg, Klavs;  Kinnes, Ian;  Chapman, Robert.  1981

Archaeology of early medieval Ireland
; Edwards, Nancy. 1990

Body Parts and Bodies Whole. Changing Relations and Meaning (Studies in Funerary Archaeology 5);    
Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Marie Louise Stig Sorensen and Jessica Hughes; 2010.

Burial in Medieval Ireland, 900-1500: A Review of the Written Sources
; Fry, S. 1999

Celebrations of death: the anthropology of mortuary ritual
. Metcalfe & Huntington. 1979.

Death and burial in medieval England, 1066-1550
;  Daniell, Christopher. 1997

Encyclopaedia of Death and Dying
,  MacMillan Reference USA. 2003.

Heart Burial in medieval and early post-medieval central Europe
; pps 119-34; Estella Weiss-Krejci. From Heart Burial; Charles Angell Bradford; 2010.

Medieval death: ritual and representation
; Binski, Paul. 2001.

Religion in Late Roman Britain; Forces of Change
;  Dr. Dorothy Watts;  2011.

Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe;
 British Museum; 2010.

Restless corpses: `secondary burial' in the Babenberg and Habsburg dynasties
Weiss - Krejci, Estella; Antiquity, Dec, 2001, Vol.75(290), p.769(12)


  B (ii)                                  ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE.

 
Architecture of The Abbey Church of Iona ; JC and CA Buckler *, Architects, Oxford;  1847 

ARGYLL : An Inventory of the Monuments VOL 4 IONA” (ARGYLL VOL 4) ; Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS); 1982.

 Art and Architecture of English Benedictine monasteries, 1300-1540;  Luxford, Julian M. 2005.

Ecclesiastical architecture of Scotland from the earliest Christian times to the seventeenth century;         MacGibbon, David;   Ross, Thomas.            1896-97.

Ecclesiastical architecture of Ireland, anterior to the Anglo-Norman invasion; comprising an essay on the origin  and uses of the round towers of Ireland, which obtained the gold medal and prize of the Royal Irish Academy;   Petrie, George; 1845.

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Medieval Scotland: Archaeological Perspective ; 1995.  Pilgrimage in Medieval Scotland; 2009;  Yeoman, P.   

Physical Evidence For The Early Church In Scotland; 2011. Foster, Sally.

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B (iii)                            ECCLESIASTICAL AND MONASTIC HISTORY.

Account of the Early Celtic Church and Mission of St Columba ; (in Buckler* above; 1847.)  Ewing A, Bishop.

Free Alms Tenure in the 12th century ; B. Thompson.  Anglo-Norman Studies XVI: Proceedings of the Battle  Conference, 1993 (Marjorie Chibnall).

John Wyclif as Legal Reformer (Conditionality of Endowment) ; William E. Farr; Uni. of Washington; 1971.

Heads of Religious Houses in Scotland ;  2001.  Watt & NF Shead, Ed.

History of St Andrews, Episcopal, Monastic, Academic and Civil; comprising the principal part of the  of the ecclesiastical history of Scotland, from the earliest age till the present time (1843). Lyon, Rev C. J.   (Formerly of Trinity College, Cambridge; Presbyter of Episcopal Church, St Andrews). 

Medieval Church in Scotland ; 1910;   Bishops of Scotland; 1912.  Celtic Church in Scotland; 1894.    John Dowden, DD, LL.D, Bishop of Edinburgh.

Monastic Order in England , 2nd edition.  Cambridge University Press; Knowles, D.  1963.

Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain, 1000-1300 .  Burton, J.  1994.

Scoto-norse kings and the reformed religious orders: patterns of monastic patronage in Twelfth-century Galloway and Argyll ; Albion: a quarterly journal concerned with British studies, Vol. 27, no. 2; pps. 187-219.                McDonald, Russell Andrew. 1995

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                        C.                                                                   

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