Archaeological essays . of the most beautifuland perfect in Scotland ; and the abbots house, the cloisters, re- brancli of it, appear to have been eminent, hereditarily, after the Irish usage,as architects or builders. At the year 1029 the Annals of Ulster record thedeath of Maolbride OBrolchan, chief mason of Ireland. And at the year1097, the death of Maelbrighde Mac-an-tsaeir (son of the mason) , lastly, we have the name of Donald OBrolchan as the architect of thegreat church at lona. But if this Donald be the person whose death is recordedin the Annals as a noble senior in 1202
Archaeological essays . of the most beautifuland perfect in Scotland ; and the abbots house, the cloisters, re- brancli of it, appear to have been eminent, hereditarily, after the Irish usage,as architects or builders. At the year 1029 the Annals of Ulster record thedeath of Maolbride OBrolchan, chief mason of Ireland. And at the year1097, the death of Maelbrighde Mac-an-tsaeir (son of the mason) , lastly, we have the name of Donald OBrolchan as the architect of thegreat church at lona. But if this Donald be the person whose death is recordedin the Annals as a noble senior in 1202, that part of the building in whichthe inscription is found must be siuely of the twelfth century ; and thestyle of its architecture supports that conclusion.—P.] * [Twelfth.—P.]VOL. I. M 82 ON A STONE-ROOFED BUILDING fectory, etc., are still comparatively entire. But the object of thepreseut communication is not to describe the well-known conven-tual ruins on the island, but to direct the attention of the Society. Fig 3. Inchcolm. to a small building, isolated, and standing at a little distance fromthe remains of the monastery, and which, I am inclined to believe,is of an older date, and of an earlier age, than any part of themonastery itself The small building, cell, oratory, or chapel, to which I allude,forms now, with its south side, a portion of the line of the northwall of the present garden, and is in a very ruinous state ; but its IN THE ISLAND OF INCHCOLM. 83 more characteristic and original features can still be accuratelymade out. The building is of the quadrangular figure of the oldest andsmallest Irish churches and oratories. But its form is very irregu-lar, partly in consequence of the extremely sloping nature of thegroimd on which it is built, and partly perhaps to accommodate itin position to three large and immovable masses of trap that lie oneither side of it, and one of which masses is incorporated into itssouth-west angle. It is thus deeper on its north
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