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In an effort to clear up my own mind on this
subject, here is what I know from my copy of Donaldson (M.E.M. Wanderings in
the Western Highlands and Islands)
The first authentic kingly burial on Iona is shortly after the
demise of St. Columba viz.: the pictish king Brude MacBile. Also at the same
time Egfrid King of Northumbria. There followed 14 of the early Scottish kings
beginning with Kenneth MacAlpine and ending with Duncan and his murderer MacBeth
and finally Lulach the Fatuous who died in 1057. After this day,
Dumfermline Abbey built by Queen Margaret became the place for Royal
burials.
Dunfermline is after Iona not before.
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