Iona, St Oran's Churchyard. Plan showing carved grave-slabs.
SC 378490
Description Iona, St Oran's Churchyard. Plan showing carved grave-slabs.
Catalogue Number SC 378490
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AGD 313/10
Scope and Content Grave-slab, from Iona, Argyll and Bute Iona is one of the most important religious sites in Scotland. The earliest community was formed by St Columba who came over from Ireland around AD 563. This was replaced by the Benedictine Abbey and Augustinian Nunnery in around AD 1200. This drawing shows one of the slabs in the Abbey Museum (No 103). Along the top of the slab is the Latin inscription 'Here lies Colum, son of Ruairi MacLeod'. Below this is a ship, two pairs of animals and a panel of plant-scrolls surrounding a warrior. The drawing was made during the 19th century by J Drummond for his work 'Sculptured monuments of Iona and the Western Highlands' (plate xvii). Cloum, or Malcolm, MacLeod died between 1515 and 1524. The style belongs to the Iona school of carving. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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