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Sheet 113 Argyllshire

Innishail Continued from preceding Page [86]
"Paul the treasurer of Scotland, or, as he is called in Gaelic, Paul an Sporain, the founder of
the noble house of Argyll, who is said to have been buried here; whilst according to a fourth party,
& in accordance with a still current tradition, it signifies the Island of Aillidh or the beautiful, a daughter of a King of Denmark whose remains are said to be interred here."

"The nunnery of Inishail the ruins of which are still distinctly visible, there is
little on record, & tradition conveys but little information concerning this house.
It was a house of nuns memorable for the sanctity of their lives, & the purity of their manners.
At the reformation this house was suppressed, and the temporalities granted to Hay Abbot
of Inchaffrey, who abjuring his former tenets embraced the cause of the reformation"
New Statistical Account [underlined]

"The church stood upon the island which gave name to the parish (Inishail),
and continued to be the parish church till 1736. There are still to be seen
a fragment of the wall & other ruins."
"On the Island of Inishail are the remains of a building said
to have been a Cistercian Nunnery, the temporalities of which it is also said, were at the
Reformation granted to Hay abbot of Inchaffrey who embraced the reformed doctrines."
Origines Parochiales [underlined]
"In the island of Inishail, the remains of a small Monastry, with its chapel, are still to be seen. Concerning this religious
house, there is little on record, and tradition conveys but small information. It was a house of Nuns, memorable for the sanctity
of their lives, and the purity of their manners. At the reformation when the innocent were involved equally with the guilty, in the
Sufferings of the times, this house was Suppressed." * * *
Old Statistical Account