Iona’s Namescape

As the project reaches the final months of its first year, it seems appropriate to share more widely some thoughts[…]

Thomas Owen Clancy On the Feast of St Columba (9th June), it seems appropriate to think a bit about the[…]

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

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[…]