{{Short description|Island in Argyll and Bute, Scotland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=March 2025}} alt=|thumb|Loch Awe and islands. '''Inishail''' (alternate '''Inchald''')<ref name="Club1913">{{cite book|author=Scottish Mountaineering Club|title=Scottish Mountaineering club journal|url=https://archive.org/details/scottishmountai05clubgoog|accessdate=29 October 2011|edition=Public domain|year=1913|publisher=The Scottish mountaineering club.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/scottishmountai05clubgoog/page/n110 72]–}}</ref> is an island and former parish,<ref name=Wilson1882>Wilson, Rev. John ''The Gazetteer of Scotland'' (Edinburgh, 1882) Published by W. & A.K. Johnstone</ref> in Loch Awe, Scotland.
==Geography== The island lies at the north end of the loch in the council area of Argyll and Bute, between Cladich and Kilchurn. Among the group of islets near the head of Loch Awe, Inishail is conspicuous by its grassy surface, giving it the nickname "Green Isle", as the others being more densely wooded. It is situated between the Pass of Brander at the one side of the loch, and the village of Cladich on the other.<ref name="Proceedings1899">{{cite book|author=Society of Antiquaries of Scotland|title=Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n_ARAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA48|accessdate=30 October 2011|edition=Public domain|year=1899|publisher=Printed for the Society by Neill and Company|pages=48–}}</ref>
==History== The parish (no 512) is now part of the parish of Glen Orchy and Inishail.<ref name="Wilson1882" /> On a slight eminence are the fragments of the walls of a small building, enclosing a space choked up with stones and a growth of nettles and other weeds; a larger space is protected from the intrusion of cattle by an iron fence.<ref name="Proceedings1899" /> This was the Chapel of St Fyndoca, and, perhaps, the remains of an ancient small convent or nunnery, though there is some dispute about its existence.<ref name="Douglas1912">{{cite journal|last=Douglas|first=William|date=May 13, 1912|title=NOTES ON THE CHURCH OF ST FYNDOCA AND ITS MONUMENTS, ON THE ISLAND OF INISHAIL, LOCH AWE.|journal=Proceedings of the Society|issue= Public domain|pages=424-|url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:CqxpC0yIEIUJ:ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-352-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_046/46_424_435.pdf+chapel+of+Saint+Fyndoc&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgI-6bXGgkraIEyHLR2UygEhvltixSjHOCzp9GVSOsFMjRs5NUbxSH8o5rBLAvFIm-UjEoA0WoLWuMl0QWrdKnZuJN9p_vhyfY7ar9xatXxN6zFp55IM1eGlUEjOdkqkHAb05lA&sig=AHIEtbQX7wlVyu9fJHvgNbw3JLX92l4Wgw}}</ref> The convent was said to be occupied by Cistercian nuns, and the property belonging to it was erected after the Protestant Reformation into a temporal lordship in favour of Hay, who had been Abbot of Inchaffray, but later became a Protestant.<ref name="Wilson1860">{{cite book|last=Wilson|first=John Marius|title=Nelsons' hand-book to Scotland: for tourists|url=https://archive.org/details/nelsonshandbook00wilsgoog|accessdate=29 October 2011|edition=Public domain|year=1860|publisher=T. Nelson|pages=[https://archive.org/details/nelsonshandbook00wilsgoog/page/n357 272]–}}</ref> A burying ground has several ancient, carved tombstones, with sculptures and devices appropriate to ecclesiastics, warriors, knights, and a peer. Some grave slabs, those having figures of armed warriors and emblematical devices, may have been taken to the burial ground of Glenorchy Parish Church in Dalmally.<ref name="Stark1831">{{cite book|last=Stark|first=John|title=The Scottish tourist and itinerary; or, A guide to the scenery and antiquities of Scotland and the western islands: with a description of the principal steam-boat tours|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-lcPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA273|accessdate=29 October 2011|year=1831|publisher=Stirling & Kenney|pages=273–|edition=Public domain}}</ref> While the principal burial place of the Dukes and Duchesses of Argyll is St Munn's Parish Church, Kilmun, the 11th and the 12th Dukes chose to be buried on the island of Inishail in Loch Awe.
== References == <references/> {{Commons category|Inishail}}
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Category:Islands of Loch Awe Category:Burial sites of the Campbells of Argyll Category:Parishes in Argyll
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