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Ordnance Survey - Argyll county, OS Name Books - Argyll county - Volume 22 - Parish of Lismore and Appin, OS1/2/22

Continued entries/extra info

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Chapel [note]
"The upper parts of Appin belonged at some remote period
to the parish of Eleanmunde or Island of Saint Munde who was
abbot and confessor in Argyle about the middle of the 10th. century.
The island of St. Munde is situated in Lochleven near the place
where the River Cae discharges itself into the Loch. It contains
the ruins of a Church, which from the style of its architecture
does not appear to have been of a very ancient date, & accordingly
although the inhabitants of Glencoe and Onich belong now to different
parishes still they bury their dead in the burying ground of their
original Parish at Eleanmunde. It is not improbable that after
the reformation the peoples who disclaimed everything Popish
would pull down the Church of St. Munde & build on its ruins
[continued on page 16]

Ordnance Survey - Argyll county, OS Name Books - Argyll county - Volume 22 - Parish of Lismore and Appin, OS1/2/22

This volume contains information on place names found in the parish of Lismore and Appin.

Ordnance Survey - Argyll county

Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Argyll, which is in the west of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.

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