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Iona’s Namescape

Author: Gilbert Markus

The Benedictine Shift

December 22, 2022 Gilbert Markus Project News

In this month’s blog I would like to explore a ‘factoid’ – a commonly held view which is not entirely[…]

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Í > IOUA > IONA

July 1, 2022 Gilbert Markus Project News

Of all the place-names associated with the island of Iona, perhaps the one that has given rise to the most[…]

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An Eala: more ‘processional archaeology’

November 26, 2021 Gilbert Markus Project News

An Eala: further evidence of the medieval ritual landscape One of the things that I was pleased to have a[…]

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Cnoc Angel – articulating a ritual landsdcape

October 29, 2021 Gilbert Markus Project News

In our blog for September, Sofia Evemalm-Graham reflected on some of the names attached to the hill called Sìthean Mòr.[1] […]

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How to arrange your Corpses

April 27, 2021 Gilbert Markus Project News

How to arrange your corpses: Saint Odrán and the replication of Iona’s Landscape Gilbert Márkus In the twelfth-century Irish ‘Life[…]

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Latin and Gaelic in the early monastery: detecting a dialect-shift?

December 18, 2020 Gilbert Markus Project News

There is a problem with looking at very early sources for evidence of Iona place-names.  Well there are several, but[…]

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Map in background image: A & E Ritchie, The map of Iona. I Chaluim - Chille (1930) courtesy of National Library of Scotland, photo in background image: Shutterstock

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