Lairds of Glenlyon

320 THE LAIRDS OF GLENLYON.
and another at the very head of the Glen near the ridge of Urumalban,
but to what saints these were dedicated deponent cannot say.
THE CHAPEL BUILT BY ST. EONAN (Page 8).
We may accept the tradition without hesitation that it was St. Eonan,
01 Adamnan, who, in his years of exile from the Monastery of Iona,
built the Chapel of " Branboth " Breanvo, or, as it is now called,
" Brennudh," near the Bridge of Balgie. Notwithstanding the prior
claims of Saints Palladius, Ninian, and others, Adamnan made himself,
without any mistake, the patron Saint of Glenlyon. The traditions
about him remained so vividly clear and strong, notwithstanding many
ways of rehearsing them in detail, that he must have had a living per-
sonal connection with the place, and done things attributed to him,
such as the building of the chapel on the rising ground called still
" Druim-na-h-eaglais," just where the farm-house of Kerrumore now
stands, and putting a mill on the stream of the neighbouring side-glen
at Milton Eonan. It is supposed that he dedicated his chapel to St.
Brandan, of voyaging and travelling fame, but this is a little doubtful,
in the third volume of Celtic Scotland, page 271, Dr. Skene, quoting
from the chartulary of the Priory of St. Andrews, says : — " In the time
of Alexander the Third, Dul and Foterkel " (Dull and Fortingall, in-
cluding Foss and Glenlyon), " remained still Crown lands, but the
Church of Dul, with its Chapels of Foss and Branboth, in Glenlyon,
belonged to Malcolm, Earl of Athole, who, after the death of William,
his cleric, granted them to the Priory of St. Andrews." The Chapel of
Branboth was removed from Druim-na-h-eaglais to the present church-
yard by Black John after 1368, because, owing to the bog between the
old and new sites, his wife, Janet, the cousin of King David Bruce,
complained that she could not in all weathers go to her devotions
without wetting her feet. St. Eonan built his Chapel near the only
stone circle in Glenlyon. The stones of this circle have been removed
within my memory. The place is called " Clachaig."