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
FILES OF MINE ACCESSED BY LINKS THROUGHOUT THE SITE ARE LISTED HERE (not books, other sites).
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W. Sacherverell Esq., Governor of Mann, 1688 :- link to p. 135; 1702 Ed.)
1859 Ed.  An account of the Isle of Man : its inhabitants, language, soil, remarkable curiosities ... with a voyage to I-Columb-Kill.

KING REGINALD (d. 1207) AND HIS IMMEDIATE HEIRS THE CLAN DONALD  LORDS OF THE ISLES, WERE THE PRINCIPAL FINANCIERS AND BUILDERS OF IONA ABBEY AND  NUNNERY

IT WAS  NOT, AS MOST COMMONLY PORTRAYED  DESPITE ALL THE ABOVE, THE IONA BBOTT ...... OR THE "MAC  SOMERLEDS" ..... OR THE ROMAN CHURCH..... OR  THE BENEDICTINE ORDER ..... OR 'THE MONKS'. 

"THE MC  DOMHNAILL"

"the first MacDonald" 

[Mac Dhomhnaill, in its various forms, started to  become an ‘early surname’ for some of the chief's  family of “de Insulis” kindred from around 1400 (earlier in Ireland) but did not became an established surname for the whole clan until after 1500.This is very
different to recognition of the Clann Domhnaill and being “one of the Clan Donald” – ie, Dhomhnullach. This occurred from at least mid to late 13th century. 


 independent sea kingdom

spiritual  service,  salvation for  their souls (and for kin, descendants and ancestors)

The Abbey in fact provided a whole range of other reciprocal  services for the Clan Donald Chiefs

 “The members of this branch (Clan Donald) turned early to  Ireland and rarely if ever went to Norway.”

Clan Donald Lord, John II, instead of just economically  restoring the existing dilapidated Abbey church, obviously used his treasury and resources to significantly enlarge and enhance it (over 1450  to 1476 - 1st  forfeiture),












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