Inch Kenneth

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Inch Kenneth is a small Scottish island. It is a part of the group of islands of the Inner Hebrides and belongs administratively to the Unitary Authority Argyll and Bute. Inch Kenneth is only separated by a few hundred meters wide strait from the west coast of the island of Mull. The elongated island has a maximum length of 1.8 km with a maximum width of 600 m.

History

Probably in the 13th century Kenneth has been to inch the St Kenneth 's Chapel, after which the island is named, built. Later, she became the main church of the Parish and was in the 16th century the nunnery on Iona at the latest. Probably the church was no longer used from the 1550s and fell into disrepair. Today the preserved ruins in the Scottish lists of monuments in the highest category A listed. In addition to the monastery on Iona Inch Kenneth was one of the most important Christian centers of Scotland. The monks of Iona also used the island for cereal crops.

Between 1859 and 1935, Inch Kenneth was owned by Harold Boulton. They then came to the family Mitford. Unity Mitford, a confidant of Hitler and sister in law of the party leaders of the right-wing British Union of Fascists, spent the last years of her life after her failed suicide attempt in Munich on Inch Kenneth. 1961 were still 17 people on the island. Ten years later, the population had been reduced to two and Inch Kenneth was abandoned in the course of the decade.