Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 2 (of 3), Church and cultureSkene, W. F. (William Forbes)
History
Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 2 (of 3), Church and culture
Skene, W. F. (William Forbes)
Celts -- Scotland; Civilization, Celtic; Scotland -- Antiquities, Celtic; Scotland -- History -- To 1603
termed by Adamnan ‘founders of monasteries,’ and he probably means here
monasteries in Scotland; for Cormac is not known to have founded any
monastery in Ireland, where he was superior of the monastery of Durrow,
founded by Columba shortly before he began his mission in Iona; but in
Galloway the church of Kirkcormac probably takes its name from him. The
other three had all founded monasteries in Scotland—Brendan one in
Tiree, and another probably in the island belonging to the Garveloch
group, called Culbrandon; Comgall, in Tiree; while Cainnech founded
several monasteries in Scotland. In his Life he is said to have lived in
Heth, or Tiree, where the remains of a church called Cillchainnech still
exist. He was also in Iona, where the remains of a burying-ground are
still called Cillchainnech. He is also said to have dwelt at the foot of
a mountain in the Drumalban range, referring, no doubt, to the church of
Laggankenney, at the east end of Loch Laggan, and two islands are
mentioned, _Ibdone_ and _Eninis_, or the ‘island of birds,’ one or other
of which was probably the island now called Inchkenneth, on the west
side of Mull.[262] Adamnan mentions one other island monastery, that of
Elena, of which one of Columba’s twelve followers, Lugneus Mocumin,
became superior—probably _Eilean Naomh_ on the west coast of Isla; and
two monasteries on the mainland, one called Cella Diuni, of which
Cailtan was superior, on the lake of the river Aba, which is probably
Lochawe; and the other called Kailleauinde, of which Finten was
superior, and which may be Killundine in the old parish of Killintag in
Morvern.[263] A few of Columba’s other foundations in western districts
and islands can be traced by their dedications to him. In the island of
Skye, where he is mentioned by Adamnan as having been twice, in the very
remarkable ruins on an island in a loch now drained, called Loch
Chollumcille, in the north of Skye. Also, on an island in the river of
Snizort, one which was of old called Sanct Colme’s kirk in Snizort; and
one on a small island in the bay of Portree, called Eilean
Columcille.[264] The church in Canna too bore his name. In Morvern one
of the two old parishes was called Cillcholumchille, and within the
limits of Dalriada, on the mainland, were a few churches bearing the
same name.
[Sidenote: Monasteries founded during St. Columba’s life by others in
the islands.]
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