Our Coffin Boat is one of three which were used by local clans to transport bodies to Eilean Munde in Loch Leven.

Eilean Munde, the burial island, is the site of a graveyard once used by the Stewarts of Ballachulish, the Camerons of Callart and the MacDonalds of Glencoe. Each clan had their own port the Ports of the Dead - and shared maintenance of the island and graveyard even in times of conflict. Among the MacDonalds said to be buried there is MacIain, 12th Chief of Glencoe, who was murdered during the infamous massacre of 1692. The last burial took place here in 1972.

The Coffin Boat is one of the most significant local history objects in our collection, and your adoption will help us protect it for posterity.

The minimum donation to adopt this object is £20. Your adoption will last for two years.

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From June 2023 anyone donating £50 or over will be recognised through their very own leaf on the redeveloped Museum's Tree of Sponsors!

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