Glencoe Coffin Boat

3D Model

A rowing boat that was used by Highland clans to carry bodies to an island graveyard. The craft was one of three funeral boats that transported the dead of three clans for burial on Eilean Munde in Loch Leven, near Glen Coe.

Alasdair Ruadh “MacIain” MacDonald, 12th chief of the MacDonalds of Glencoe and who was murdered during 1692’s Massacre of Glencoe, is believed to be among those buried on the island.

The boat is to be restored at Windermere Jetty Museum, Cumbria before it is returned to Glencoe Folk Museum, where it has long been a star exhibit