St Mary's Old Church & Cemetery

In the upper part of Tobermory, on our way to the beach in the Bay of Calgary, we spotted this isolated cemetery next to some ruins, so of course I had to go and investigate. Here we found some modern tombs mingled with others of great age, their inscriptions almost illegible with age. Inside the cemetery we found the ruins of what was once a stone church, small in size and with clearly medieval features.

After doing a bit of research, I discovered that it was the old church of St Mary's, which belonged to the Benedictine monastery on the island of Iona, where Christianity began in Scotland in the sixth century.