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Inch Kenneth () is a small grassy island off the west coast of the Isle of Mull, in Scotland. It is at the entrance of Loch na Keal, to the south of Ulva. It is part of the Loch na Keal National Scenic Area, one of 40 in Scotland. "National Scenic Areas" . SNH. Retrieved 30 Mar 2011. It is within the parish of Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon, in Argyll and Bute.
In the early 1930s the island was owned by Sir Harold Boulton, 2nd Baronet, the writer of the words to the Skye Boat Song. He enlarged an earlier house to make the existing mansion, dying in 1935.
The island's most celebrated subsequent owner in the twentieth century was the Mitford family. Nazism sympathiser Unity Mitford spent her final years on the island. Following the death of their father, Lord Redesdale, the island was inherited under Scots law by the surviving Mitford sisters and not his wife, as Lord Redesdale had willed it to his only son Tom, who had predeceased him. When their mother died in 1963, Nancy Mitford gave her share to Jessica, who bought the shares of Diana Mitford, Deborah Mitford and Pamela Mitford.Mary S. Lowell, The Mitford Sisters Jessica, a former communist, teasingly suggested that it might become a Soviet Union submarine base.
The island was sold by Jessica in the late 1960s to Andrew Barlow, son of Sir Alan Barlow, 2nd Baronet. It remains with their family.
Inch Kenneth is classified by the National Records of Scotland as an inhabited island that "had no usual residents at the time of either the 2001 or 2011 censuses."
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