One of my kinsmen in the Clan MacCallum Malcolm Society dropped in on this thread. He has given me permission to share his private email to me with you. Awesome history and photos, Bob.

“My mother was a McCallum. She descended from a branch that were the early settlers of Nova Scotia, Canada. I have just recently learned of their earlier possible location in Scotland and am just beginning to pursue that.

I have discovered that St. Columba has a connection to my Meehan/Mehihan/O’Meighan family. St. Molaise of Devenish is a Meehan and the patron saint of the Meehans. It was he who banished St. Columba from Ireland to Iona to Scotland as the result of the famous “copyright” case. On a trip to Ireland last summer I visited the well of St. Molaise, located in Ballaghmeehan, just north of Manorhamilton in County Leitrim. In the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin I viewed the cumdach, or gospel-book cover, of St. Molaise which was guarded by Meehans as coarbs of St. Molaise down through the centuries until they presented it to the National Museum in the late 1800’s.
It is so amazing to me how the Meehans and the McCallums have been reunited after all these centuries.”

All the best

Bob Meehan
Dunwoody (Atlanta) Georgia USA