Old Graveyard & remains of St Maelrubha's Chapel, Arisaig, Lochaber, Scotland, UK, looking SW to Loch nan Ceall. Burial place of Alexander MacDonald.
Old Graveyard & remains of St Maelrubha's Chapel, Arisaig, Lochaber, Scotland, UK, looking SW to Loch nan Ceall. The chapel was built on an existing Christian site in the early C16th by John of Moidart (Eoin Muideartach), 8th Chief of Clanranald. Originally dedicated to St Maelrubha (d 571) the name became corrupted to Kilmory, dedicated to St Mary of Iona. There are eight late medieval carved stones from the site plus post medieval graves of Clan Ranald (MacDonald) members. C19th & C20th headstones & monuments including those to members of the Astley family, owners of the Arisaig Estate. Also burials of servicement from WWI (one) & WWII (eight) including six from HMS Curacoa. The Clanranald Bard, Alexander MacDonald (Alasdair, mac Mhaighstir Alasdair), said to be the greatest Scots Gaelic poet, was buried here in an unmarked grave around 1770. An ardent Jacobite, he fought in the 1715 and 1745 uprisings. During the '45 he became Captain of the Clan Ranald regiment & acted as Gaelic tutor & translator to Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie). He survived the Jacobite defeat at Culloden & went into hiding until the Act of Indemnity was passed. Continuing to produce Gaelic literature, pro-Jacobite poetry & anti-Hanoverian invective, he published The Resurrection of the Ancient Scottish Tongue in Edinburgh in 1751, copies of which were burned by the public hangman in 1752.
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Location: Arisaig Village Old Church and Burial Ground, Loch na Ceall, Mallaig, Lochaber, Highland, Scotland,
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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