. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. de of the Kirkapoll Bay. Here are twodistinct burying-grounds. One of them con-tains the ruins of an old church, and severalof the narrow decorated tombstones of thelona pattern, some of which are probably tobe reckoned among the numerous spoliationsof the Sacred Isle : one of them, in particular,which bears the following inscription on thebevel of its margin :—^ fingonivs : prior : de Y : ME : DEDID : PHILIPPO : lOHANNIS : ET : suis: piLiis : ANNO : DOMINI M° ccco° xcv°. This Priorwas of the Clann Mac Finnguine, now calledMakinnon, and
. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. de of the Kirkapoll Bay. Here are twodistinct burying-grounds. One of them con-tains the ruins of an old church, and severalof the narrow decorated tombstones of thelona pattern, some of which are probably tobe reckoned among the numerous spoliationsof the Sacred Isle : one of them, in particular,which bears the following inscription on thebevel of its margin :—^ fingonivs : prior : de Y : ME : DEDID : PHILIPPO : lOHANNIS : ET : suis: piLiis : ANNO : DOMINI M° ccco° xcv°. This Priorwas of the Clann Mac Finnguine, now calledMakinnon, and is thus noticed by Mac Firbis :—* Finnguine, abbot of Hy, brother to Domhnall,son of 6. About 30 yards to the south-east isanother, but seemingly more modern cemetery,called Claodh-Odhrain, that is, Orans grave-yard from St. Columbas disciple, the first,who was said to have been interred in lona, andfrom whom the Relig Oran, or great cemeterythere, takes its name. A little distance north of these graveyards, is a rocky eminence, the. Grave Slab, Kirkapoll Church-yard, Tiree. (From a Sketchby Mr. T. J. Westropp.)
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