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front bears the date 1677 cut in relief. The
height of the building is some 22'. I
believe it was in this burial vault where
Kennedy of Kalmuch the Younger sounded
the drum on his sire's stomach the legend
relating that the body was wondrously
preserved by the brine in the air! (see ? Calder)
A slight elevation towards the S. [South] end of the
island bears the name of Cairn Hill but
no cairn now remains on it.
Half a mile down the East coast from the
North end of the island is a little harbour
at the Goe of Nethertown. Beside the
house occupied by Mr. Smith immediately
to the South of this are remains which
are probably prehistoric. Some 20' to
the S. [South] of the house there are protruding a
few inches through the turf two slabs set
on edge, parallel and 3' apart while 2' to
the West of the most Northerly is another
in alignment with it. We were told
that along the coast towards the North
were many such cist like settings of slabs
known as "Picts' beds" but we saw no others.
except such as are here recorded. On the
N. [North] side of the house at the edge of the

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Transcriber's notes

Pennant - A Tour in Scotland 1769, Volume 1 p353
- that one Murdo Kennedy , son of Carumuch , is said to beat the drum on his father's belly.

Geographical collections relating to Scotland made by Walter Macfarlane - p.152
"A Tomb or
burying place built by the forsaid Kennedy of Kairnmuck,
which perfectly preserves bodyes from putrefaction, so the
bodyes laid there in coffins, without bowelling or embalming
forty years ago and upwards to this day have all the members
intire, and so firmly dryed up that they will stand upright on
their feet."