. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 274 llOYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUAIUES OF IRELAND. The last human inhabitant of tlie island was Donald Macleod, Kingof Rona, who left it in 1846. Mr. Muirs description of the chapel of St. Eouan is as follows : — Of this rude and diminiitive building not much can be said. On the outside it ismost part a rounded heap of loose stones, roofed over with turf. Within you find ita roughly-built cell 9 feet 3 inches in lieight, and at the floor 11 feet 6 inches longand 7 feet 6 inches wide. The end wall leans inwardly a little, the side one sogreat
. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 274 llOYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUAIUES OF IRELAND. The last human inhabitant of tlie island was Donald Macleod, Kingof Rona, who left it in 1846. Mr. Muirs description of the chapel of St. Eouan is as follows : — Of this rude and diminiitive building not much can be said. On the outside it ismost part a rounded heap of loose stones, roofed over with turf. Within you find ita roughly-built cell 9 feet 3 inches in lieight, and at the floor 11 feet 6 inches longand 7 feet 6 inches wide. The end wall leans inwardly a little, the side one sogreatly that, where they meet the flat slab-formed roof they are scarcely 2 feet the singularity of its shape there is nothing remarkable in the building, its. Teampull Rona. West-end interior elevation of smaller Cell. only minute features being a square doorway in the west end, so low that you have tocreep through it on your elbows and knees ; a flat-headed window, without splay oneither side, 19 inches long and 8 inches wide, set over the doorway ; another windowof like form and length, but an inch or two wider near the east end of the south wall;and the altar-stone, 3 feet in length, lying close to the east end. Attached as a nave to the west end of the cell, and externally coextensive withit in breadth, are the remains of another chapel, internally 14 feet 8 inches in length,and 8 feet 3 inches in width. Except the north one, which is considerably broken down,all the elevations are nearly entire, the west one retaining a part of the gable. PROCEEDINGS. 275 A rude flat-headed doorway, 3 feet 5 inclies in height, and 2 feet 3 inches wide,in the south wall, and a small windoNv of the same shape, eastward of it, are the onlydetails. At what
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