St Eithne’s Grave, Eileach An Naoimh, Argyll and Bute, Inner Hebrides

The Journal of Antiquities

Aethne’s Grave on Eileach an Naoimh by Gordon Doughty (Geograph)

OS grid reference: NM 6302 0964. The littleScottish island of Eileach-an-Naoimh (Rock of the Saint) isone of the Garvellach Islands, in the Firth of Lorne, and is thereputed burial place of St Eithne, mother of St Columba, making it a ‘holy island’.On this very remote, windswept island are the scant remains of a Celtic monastery with beehive huts, two chapels and a graveyard with three crosses,and8...