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A font in the ruined chapel on Inishail. Inishail is a small island at the north end of Loch Awe, opposite the village of Ardanaiseig. An early Christian settlement was established on the island in the 10th century. The parish of Inishail was centred on the island until the parish church was moved to Cladich in the 18th century. The island also has a burial ground which contains the graves of many members of the MacArthur clan. The 12th Duke of Argyll was also buried there after his death in April 2001.

M.E.M. Donaldson was born in 1876 and came to the Highlands around 1908. She travelled extensively around the North and West Highlands, writing and taking photographs. One of her favourite locations was the Ardnamurchan Peninsula and it was there she settled, at Sanna, in 1927.

Between 1912 and 1949 Miss Donaldson produced many books on the social history and customs of the North and West Highlands. 'Wanderings in the Western Highlands and Islands' and 'Further Wanderings - Mainly in Argyll' are two of her best known works and both are illustrated with her own photographs. She died in a nursing home in Edinburgh in 1958, and was buried in Oban.

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