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  2. Iona - Wikipedia

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    The island of Iona has played an important role in Scottish landscape painting, especially during the Twentieth Century. As travel to north and west Scotland became easier from the mid C18 on, artists' visits to the island steadily increased. The Abbey remains in particular became frequently recorded during this early period.

  3. Iona Abbey - Wikipedia

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    Iona Abbey is an abbey located on the island of Iona, just off the Isle of Mull on the West Coast of Scotland. It is one of the oldest Christian religious centres in Western Europe. The abbey was a focal point for the spread of Christianity throughout Scotland and marks the foundation of a monastic community by St. Columba , when Iona was part ...

  4. List of islands of Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Some 94 Scottish islands are permanently inhabited, of which 89 are offshore islands. Between 2001 and 2011, Scottish island populations as a whole grew by 4% to 103,702. [3] The geology and geomorphology of the islands is varied. Some, such as Skye and Mull, are mountainous, while others like Tiree and Sanday are relatively low-lying.

  5. Hebrides - Wikipedia

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    The Scottish acceptance of Magnus III as King of the Isles came after the Norwegian king had conquered Orkney, the Hebrides and the Isle of Man in a swift campaign earlier the same year, directed against the local Norwegian leaders of the various island petty kingdoms. By capturing the islands Magnus imposed a more direct royal control ...

  6. List of Inner Hebrides - Wikipedia

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    The islands of Scotland's west coast are known collectively as the Hebrides; ... Sound of Iona: Eilean à Ghearrain, Eilean Dubh, Eilean Dubh na Ciste, ...

  7. Iona (name) - Wikipedia

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    Iona is a given name that is taken from the Scottish island of Iona, [1] [2] which has a particular significance in the history of Christianity. The derivation of this island name itself is uncertain. The earliest forms of the name enabled toponymist William J. Watson to state that it originally meant something like "yew-place". [3]

  8. Iona Nunnery - Wikipedia

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    Ruins of the Iona Nunnery. The Iona Nunnery was an Augustinian convent of nuns located on the island of Iona in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It was established sometime after the foundation of the nearby Benedictine monastery in 1203 by Ranald, son of Somerled. Bethóc, daughter of Somerled, and sister of Ranald, was first prioress. The ...

  9. Bay at the Back of the Ocean - Wikipedia

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    The Bay at the Back of the Ocean (Scottish Gaelic: Camas Cuil an t-Saimh) is a wide, west facing bay on the island of Iona, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, and is so named because the next westward stop is North America. Behind the beach is the machair, a wide grassed area that houses communal sheep grazing for the island, and the local golf course ...

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