Fionnphort
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Fionnphort is the principal port of the Ross of Mull, and the largest settlement in the locale (its population is approximately 70). Fionnphort is the base of the ferry service between 'mainland' Mull and Iona. It is also home to a museum about Saint Columba, a shop and restaurant - all of which capitalise on the traffic of tourists and pilgrims to Iona. Fionnphort also has a beach (with a distinctive cracked granite boulder in the centre), car park and cemetery.
Historically, Fionnphort has been a fishing village offering religious pilgrims access to Iona; more recently, it has facilitated the movement of stone from a quarry in the vicinity. The granite which was quarried was highly prized for its density and hardness. Fionnphort still has a thriving fishing industry, noted principally for shellfish, especially crabs and lobsters, almost all of which are exported in large container trucks to Spain and France.
