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Early in the 7th century St Munda built a church on the island in Loch Leven that today bears the name Eilean Munda and that was the burial island of the MacDonalds, Camerons and Stewarts. This ancient church became the parish church of Eilean Munda (or Glencoe) and during the 16th century Lismore and Eilean Munda were united together. This union however was annulled in or around the year 1650 when the Commissioner of Teinds once more disjoined Eilean Munda from Lismore and erected it as a separate parish. A number of years later in 1661, when parliament passed the Act Rescissory, the erection of the parish of Eilean Munda was rendered void, the area was once more attached to the Parish of Lismore, and the old parish church was left to fall into a ruinous state. During the early part of the 19th century a new church was erected on the mainland near the mouth of Glencoe to serve the district and in 1890 the parish of Glencoe St Munda's (or Eilean Munda) was disjoined once again from Lismore and erected as a separate parish, quoad sacra. There was also a mission chapel within the bounds of the parish at Kinlochleven. In 1960 a link was established between Glencoe St Munda's and Duror. The Kirk Session sat within the Presbytery of Lorn until 1963 when, by Act of Assembly, the Presbytery of Lorn and the Presbytery of Mull were united together under the name of the Presbytery of Lorn and Mull. Following the restructuring of the Presbyteries in 1976, it became part of the Presbytery of Lochaber. |