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window, and on the other to the chancel side a recess of about 
the same size. Above are two other small recesses. Between 
the arch and the roof is a tiny chamber, entered by a small door- 
way in the west gable, which is supposed to have been a retreat 
for the anchorite when danger threatened. The roof of the 
chapel is formed of stone slabs, now overgrown with moss. 
The western division of the building shows signs of later 
alterations, probably carried out at the same time as the chancel 
arch was filled in. ‘The original doorway seems to have been a 
fairly large round-headed opening on the north side. This has 
been built up, and a low flat-headed doorway formed in the 
south wall, which has again been further contracted, and the 
opening skewed. In the side walls are joist holes about 5 feet 
6 inches up, and the putting in of this floor would explain the 
building up of the chancel arch and the north doorway, both of 
which would rise above the level of this floor. The west gable 
appears to have been almost completely taken down and rebuilt 
with a corbelled out fireplace, vent, and chimney head at the 
level of the upper floor, and two small widely splayed windows 
formed, one of which is lintelled with a part of what seems to 
have been a carved tombstone. 
At what period these alterations were carried out it is im- 
possible to say, but, as according to Mr Howson in “ Ecclesiasti- 
cal Antiquities of Argyllshire,’’ “the chief parochial minister 
seems to have lived always in the cell on this island, and to have 
made periodical excursions to his different ‘ preaching places,’ it 
is probable that they were carried out to make the cell a more 
comfortable habitation.’’ 
We came out from the gloom of the cell and went down 
again to the harbour. After the anchor had been dropped, and 
the cabin erected, we sat for long in the bow watching the moon 
rise, and as it flooded with soft light the strange old ruin, while 
ever there came to our ears the low roar of the tide round the 
island, we felt that even in this century some of its old magic 
still lingers about Eilean Mor. 
