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SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF THE
REV.D NEIL MACLEAN MA
WHO DIED ON THE 26TH OF AUGUST 1858
IN THE
75TH YEAR OF HIS AGE
AND THE 49TH OF HIS INCUMBANCY
AS MINISTER OF
TYREE AND COLL

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THIS STONE
IS ERECTED BY HIS THREE DAUGHTERS
AS A TRIBUTE TO HIS WORTH AND TOKEN
AND TOKEN OF THEIR DEEP AND LASTING AFFECTION

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Notes: Rev Minister of the Church of Scotland

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FINGONIVS PRIOR DE Y ME DEDID

PHILIPPO IOHANNIS ET SVIS FILIIS

ANNO DOMINI M°CCCC°XCV°

Notes:

Tapered slab with bevelled edge, 1.79m long by 0.48m wide at the head.

Below a foliated cross and flanked by plant scrolls is a two handed sword of the type known as a claymore. The quillons end in quatrefoil and there are slight traces of decoration on the scabbard. The incised inscription runs up the right hand bevel and finishes on the upper edge of the stone.

This stone has the earliest known representation of a claymore.

(Monumental Sculpture by Steer & Bannerman)

Translation“Prior of Iona, gave me to Philippus son of John, and to his sons in the year of Our Lord 1495”

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SACRED
TO THE MEMORY
OF
ISABELLA MACDONALD
WIFE OF THE REV.D MACLEAN
WHO DIED ON THE 13TH MARCH
1855
BELOVED THROUGH LIFE AND MARRIED
IN DEATH
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HER SORROWING DAUGHTERS
DEDICATE THIS HUMBLE STONE
IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBERANCE
OF HER MATERNAL LOVE FOR THEM

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Nothing VIsible
Notes: Tapered slab broken off at the foot and very weathered. It measures 1.5m long by 0.43 m wide at the head. Within a double roll moulding there is an oblong at the top for an inscription, now no longer visible, under which is a square of irregular and tightly drawn interlace then a galley with a furled sail and below that two pairs of opposed beasts and an overall pattern of plant scroll ornament. Iona School 14th -16th century

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IN MEMORY OF
MARY FLORA
DAUGHTER OF
REV.D NEIL MACLEAN
WHO DIED ON THE 5TH AUGUST
1831

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THE BRIGHTEST OF
WHOSE EARLY PROMISE IS STILL
UNCLOUDED IN THE MEMORY
OF HER THREE SURVIVING SISTERS
WHO THUS MARK THE SPOT WHERE THEIR
DEAR SISTER LIES

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Nothing VIsible
Notes: Tapered slab 1.82cm long and 0.41 m wide at the head very worn. It has a double scroll moulding round the edge. At the top of the stone there is a label for an inscription now no longer visible and underneath, a galley with a furled sail. The rest of the decoration consists of a centrally placed sword with irregular knot work in the spaces above the quillions, and double plant scrolls on either side of the blade. The sword has a lobated pommel and short inclined quillions, so is not a claymore. Iona School 14th -15th century.

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Notes:Slab where nothing visible and it may be one of the 2 slab stones described by Beveridge that had no markings

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Notes: Lower part of a tapered slab .075m long bearing a sword of uncertain type flanked by plant-scrolls .14th -16th century

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