Iona’s Namescape

April 2021 First in our ‘Name of the Month’ series is Uamh na Caisge (NM261217) found at the southern end[…]

A series of Advent Tweets in December last year by @ChronHib (find it here) sparked this investigation into how colours[…]

Mairi MacArthur writes: On 9th June 1928 – the feast of St Columba – Alec Ritchie wrote from Iona to his[…]

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

Welcome to the first blog on the Iona’s Namescape website, which we are posting on 7th December, the traditional day[…]