Inchkenneth Chapel

St Kenneth’s Chapel stands on Inch Kenneth, a small island off Mull in Argyll and Bute. Built in the 13th century, it was once the parish church and later passed to Iona Nunnery. The building measures about twelve metres by six metres and has heavy buttresses at the corners. Four pointed windows light the interior, two lancets on the east wall and smaller ones on the north and south. A step separates the chancel from the nave, and the main door is in the north wall at the west end. The chapel is now a ruin, especially on the south side, but inside lie eight cross slabs from the 14th to 16th centuries. Grave markers from the 17th and 18th centuries show the site remained in use long after services stopped. Outside, a burial enclosure holds many graves and a slate high cross dated between 1500 and 1560. The cross was moved to its present position in 1926. Visitors walk among the roofless walls and see the tilted east wall reinforced in the 16th or 17th century. The graveyard still receives occasional burials, linking past and present. The island setting adds quiet to the scene, where stone crosses and weathered slabs recall centuries of worship and remembrance.