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St Mundu
The Year is ... AD 600



Eilean Munde, or St Munn's Isle, in Loch Leven with its ancient burial ground and church, is named after St Mundu, one of the early missionary saints of the time of St Columba. He was known in Gaelic as Mo-fhindu, an affectionate name for Fintan, who was monk and abbot of the Irish Church.



According to Columba's biographer Adomnam, Mundu is said as a young man to have come from Ireland to join Columba on Iona. A number of churches in Argyll were dedicated to him. His death is commemorated in Irish literature as 21st October AD 635.



The island of Eilean Munde was used for many years for burials by the MacDonalds of Glencoe, the Stewarts of Ballachurlish and the Camerons of Onich. The last MacDonald was buried on the island in 1972.