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.
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    • 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"
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May 31st, 2013

31/5/2013

6 Comments

 
6 Comments
Peter
4/6/2013 12:38:12 pm

Just wondering why you excluded mention of Y DNA test results within any of your articles ? Would your "1 C" reason for this site make a more convincing case of Somerled being of an R1A ancestry?

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Ian Macdonnell
4/6/2013 01:24:41 pm

Peter, Thanks. If you enter "DNA" in the search facility {page top} there will be 4 results. They are there, but in the longer articles {book chapters}. Maybe I should make a special, more visible mention?

Here is one :- Link to Clan Donald DNA Project {Somerled!}.
Clan Donald’s DNA project, now nine years old, is among the largest family-based genetic genealogy project in the world. On February 25, 2011, it reached the 1000 participant level.

and 2. attribution_interpretation_etc_website_2.pdf :- ... Y-DNA (and carbon dating) from any genuine burial bones found would be very interesting as the current Clan Donald Chiefs are all Norse R1a1.

Thanks for your feedback Peter. Cheers, ian

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Ian Macdonnell
4/6/2013 01:37:24 pm

Peter - re Y-DNA. p.100 under heading of "Somerled" and p.114 in the Burial Interpretation, Attribution Chapter [re example "2" I just gave]

Ian Macdonnell
4/6/2013 02:04:57 pm

Peter - and your 2nd good Q. re my "1C" on home page {"Give a sound basis for the only identification of a grave slab for the Abbey founder."} It would be a huge help as Reginald the Abbey founder and his father Somerled should both be R1a {if any bones/teeth can give some good DNA; these days if the DNA is sound then even a biological match can be made}. All the MacDonald Lords of Isles buried in this chapel should be {current ones still are}. So, also exhume grave, their ancestral "tomb", in front of the arched wall niche as well? It would be marvelous if Historic Scotland {site Custodians/Managers} commissioned an "exhumation" from the graves either side of the altar in St Oran's Chapel...see last para., p.114 of the chapter mentioned. Lets pray! Thanks again. All the best. Ian.

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Just Wondering
18/9/2015 08:13:24 am

King Donald I of Alpin had a grandson Doungallus that married Spontana and they had 4 sons. the 3rd son Gille Adona or Anrotha he then married and had 1 daughter Gillbridest and she married Somerled Norweigen and from this union All MacDonalds are from. They are Not the founders of Iona that would have been St Columba. Yes there are two small gravestones of MacDonalds. but they are descended from a differant line altogether (MacKinnons or known at the time mihic Clann MacFhiniuone.

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Peter
20/9/2015 11:18:52 am

Ian, first time I've been on the site for some time. Just wanted to say great job in developing the site.

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