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The old parish church and burial ground at Arisaig, also known as St Maelrubha's Chapel or the ancient church of Cill Mha'ru or Kilmory, dates from no later than the 16th century and may be earlier. The chapel stands to the north of St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, completed in 1849. Alasdair MacMaighstir Alasdair, the great Gaelic poet, is buried in an unknown grave here. This view of the church was photographed in the first half of the 20th century by M.E.M. Donaldson.

Mary Ethel Muir 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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