Tombstones

The tombstones probably lay on the floor of the Chapel until the late 19th century when there was amateur digging. Tombstones were traditionally those of wives and children of the Lords of the Isles, who were themselves buried in Iona. There is certainly one child-size tombstone.

The effigy of a warrior wearing an aketon or quilted overgarment is almost certainly on the tombstone of MacGilleasbuig of Finlaggan who died after the forfeiture of the Lordship. This family seems to have been of considerable standing even before the forfeiture, and after it they became the chief family at Finlaggan.