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This small ruined chapel on Eilean Mòr, known as St Cormac's Chapel, dates from the late 12th to early 13th century with alterations made in the 14th and 15th centuries. The broken 10th-century cross slab to the right of the photograph stands near the south east corner of the chapel and traditionally marks the site of St Cormac's grave.

Eilean Mòr is the largest of a group of islands in the Sound of Jura, at the mouth of Loch Sween. It is a perfect location for an early Christian retreat. St Cormac, a 7th-century Irish monk, is associated with the area and may have spent time in the cave known as 'St Cormac's Cave' in the south east of Eilean Mòr.

The photographer, 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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