. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. shop and the post ofiice. At the northern end of this small village, called by the islandersThe Street, the site, but the site only, of Adamnans Cross is pointed• out. Here at Port Bonan visitors are usually landed, and from hsretheyusually begin their examination of the ruins of the island by followingthe roadway which ascends the slope westward from the pier to theJNunnery. 0 2 176 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND The Nunnkey. This Nunnery was that founded for black or Benedictine nuns byReginald, whose sister, Beatrix, was its
. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. shop and the post ofiice. At the northern end of this small village, called by the islandersThe Street, the site, but the site only, of Adamnans Cross is pointed• out. Here at Port Bonan visitors are usually landed, and from hsretheyusually begin their examination of the ruins of the island by followingthe roadway which ascends the slope westward from the pier to theJNunnery. 0 2 176 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND The Nunnkey. This Nunnery was that founded for black or Benedictine nuns byReginald, whose sister, Beatrix, was its first abbess; and which ismentioned in the Papal Letter of 1203. A more ancient nunnery, which probably was connected with theColumban monastery of lona, is said to have existed on the little islandcalled Eilean-na-mhan, the Island of the Women, which lies in theSound, close to the shore of Mull, and nearly opposite the abbey churchof lona, and on which, some years since, there were traces of a buildingcalled by the country people The The Nunnery, Zona. Ground-plan, The ruins of the I^unnery of lona consist of the foundations of acloister about 68 feet sc^uare, which is bounded on the north by theconvent church, on the east by the lower portion of the walls of thechapter-house, the stone seat of which remains, and by those of otheroffices; and on the south by the foundations of what once was the PROCEEDINGS. 177 refectory. An upper story, in which the dormitories were probablysituated, existed above the chapter-house and other offices which formedthe lower portion of the cloisters eastern side ; but no vestige of anybuilding exists upon the western one. The church, now greatly ruined, is described by the old StatisticalAccount of 1765 as being then quite entire, one end of it arched, andvery beautiful. An oblong structure, about 58 feet long by 20 wide, itwas divided into nave and choir, and upon its noithern side therewas an aisle extending almost tlie full
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