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The Benedictine Shift
In this month’s blog I would like to explore a ‘factoid’ – a commonly held view which is not entirely[…]
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Thomas Clancy wonders about the identity of the saint in the name of Iona’s medieval parish church. The ruined church[…]
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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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We are grateful to Alicia Hendrick for providing this guest blog sharing her work on Cobhain Cuildich and Cladh an[…]
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An Eala: further evidence of the medieval ritual landscape One of the things that I was pleased to have a[…]
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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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