St. Adomnan (also Adamnan, Eunan) was born in Ireland in about 625, approximately on the site of the present-day small town of Raphoe in County Donegal in Ulster. His father’s name was Ronan and his ...

St Columba was Abbot of Iona from the date of the monastery’s founda­tion (563) till his death (597). New research sug­gests that a now long-vanished stone cross that had once stood on the rocky ...

Located on the island of Iona, ... to somewhere between 540 and 650 AD. St Columba was Abbot of Iona from the date of the monastery’s foundation (563 AD) till his death (597 AD).

They will row and sail their craft so as to reach Iona at Pentecost, which this year falls on June 2, for it was on the eve of Pentecost in 563 that St. Columba, sailing from Derry with 12 ...

An even more incredible story of miracle-working is ascribed to Adomnan, the ninth Abbot of Iona, involving another, more famous Pictish King named Bridei - the same King Bridei who defeated the ...

Just before we got to the abbey, we saw a small chapel and a graveyard. St. Oran’s Chapel, dating from the early 12th century, is the oldest original building still standing on Iona.

He may well have been one of the three very senior monks who died on Iona in 801 and 802 – either the newly appointed abbot, Bresal mac Ségéni, who died 801, or his successor Connachtach who ...

On the night before Christmas 986, Danes out of Limerick descended on Iona. The Abbot and 15 monks began running towards the shore, hoping for shelter among the black rocks.

In 563 AD Columba left Ireland and settled with the Gaels of Dál Riata, where he was granted the Island of Iona to found his monastery. The traditional opinion of how Columba came to Scotland ...