Iona’s Namescape

John McCormick writing in The Oban Times 15 June 1889 (p. 3) commented that in the earlier half of that[…]

In the National Library of Scotland there is a manuscript with the pleasingly rounded shelf-mark NLS MS 10000.  It is[…]

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

Thomas Clancy wonders about the identity of the saint in the name of Iona’s medieval parish church. The ruined church[…]

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

Mairi MacArthur looks at two place-names – one on land, one at sea – and wonders if, and how, they[…]

We are grateful to Mike Small for providing this guest blog sharing his work on the lost wells of Iona.[…]

Cèilidh air fhilmeadh do dh’Eilean Idhe a chaidh fhoillseachadh an toiseach aig ‘Ì Chaluim Chille’: co-labhairt a chaidh a chur[…]

We are grateful to Alicia Hendrick for providing this guest blog sharing her work on Cobhain Cuildich and Cladh an[…]