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Iona Abbey

Image credit: Akela NDE, CC BY-SA 2.0, (source: Wikimedia Commons)

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8 artworks

Part of Historic Environment Scotland

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Iona is a holy isle and has been described as the birthplace of Christianity in Scotland. Saint Columba and 12 companions came here from Ireland in 563 AD. The monastery they founded was one of the most important and influential in the British Isles. It sent missionaries to northern Britain to convert people to Christianity.

Isle of Iona, Argyll and Bute PA76 6SQ Scotland

01681 700 512

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https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/iona-abbey-and-nunnery/

Artworks

  • Grave Slab of Gilbride MacKinnon
    Grave Slab of Gilbride MacKinnon unknown artist
    Iona Abbey
  • Effigy of Abbot Dominic MacKenzie
    Effigy of Abbot Dominic MacKenzie unknown artist
    Iona Abbey
  • Effigy of Abbot John MacKinnon
    Effigy of Abbot John MacKinnon unknown artist
    Iona Abbey
  • Grave Slab of Lachlan
    Grave Slab of Lachlan Mael-Sechlainn O'Cuinn (active 14th C–15th C)
    Iona Abbey
  • Grave Slab of an Unknown Warrior or Chieftain
    Grave Slab of an Unknown Warrior or Chieftain unknown artist
    Iona Abbey
  • Grave Slab of an Unknown Warrior or Chieftain
    Grave Slab of an Unknown Warrior or Chieftain unknown artist
    Iona Abbey
  • Grave Slab of Prioress Anna MacLean
    Grave Slab of Prioress Anna MacLean unknown artist
    Iona Abbey
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Historic Environment Scotland has another 345 artworks

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    Mael-Sechlainn O'Cuinn
  • Pickford Narrow Boat 'Hope' at a Lock
    unknown artist
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