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Do you know about Clach a' Bhainne 'the milk stone' of #Iona? Read more: https://t.co/tpKcntSadK
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#NameoftheMonth Cladh nan Druineach: could this name mean 'burial ground of the embroideresses'?
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#NameoftheMonth A lovely name with a gruesome yet seasonally appropriate history: according to tradition Tràigh Bàn (nam Manach) 'White strand (of the monks)' at the northern end of #Iona was where the #Christmas Eve massacre of 986 took place: https://t.co/tpKcntSI3i
#NameoftheMonth #October, tattie holiday month. The name Losaid, referring to a feature located between Clachanach and Liana a’ Gheòidh, may have a surprising connection to potatoes: https://t.co/tpKcntSadK
#nameofthemonth Two names for the same croft, known in local #Gaelic as An Àilean Bhàn 'the fair meadow' and in English as Greenbank, reflecting the fine stretch of grassland around there above the shoreline south of Baile Mòr.
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#Nameofthemonth Cobhain Cuildich, pictured. The stone structure in the background of the image may be a sheep- or cattle-pen. It seems rather odd that one has a name and the other, as far as we know, doesn't. Does anyone know a #name for this structure? #Iona
#NameoftheMonth: Clach Chùil ‘rock of the corner or nook’: https://t.co/tpKcntSadK
#OTD 27 #May The Martyrology of Tallaght commemorates Ecgfrith, king of Northumbria. Read more about how he is connected to Iomair nan Rìgh, ‘ridge of the kings’ on #Iona in our #nameofthemonth :
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#April sees the Feast of the martyrdom of St Donnan of Eigg, on 17 April. Early medieval Iona seems to have had multiple feast-days celebrating martyrs, and so our thoughts have turned to Port nam Mairtir for the #nameofthemonth: https://t.co/tpKcntSadK
Happy #InternationalWomensDay ! Our #March #NameoftheMonth is Fang Màiri 'Mary's Fank', a green plot located on the lower, north-west slopes of Dùn Ì. This month we will also ask why #StBrigid is absent from the historical namescape of Iona: https://t.co/tpKcntSadK
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#NameoftheMonth The Marble Quarry: the only place-name in our corpus without a #Gaelic (or Gaelicised) form on record as early as the 18th century. Read more: https://t.co/tpKcntSadK
Image: Iona Marble Quarry © Elliott Simpson
To celebrate the re-release of “I Know Where I’m Going” (1945), our #NameoftheMonth features one of Iona’s many names containing the #Saint called Odhran or #Oran, Cnoc Odhrain. Read more: https://t.co/tpKcntSadK
A new jewellery collection (https://t.co/I55yyMHPxu) created by designers @GilliesMaeve and @mhairikillin has inspired our September #NameoftheMonth, Tobar na h-Aoise ‘The well of age’: https://t.co/tpKcntSadK
#NameoftheMonth Uamh an t-Sèididh, Uamh Spùtaich and the Spouting Cave are all names for the now famous cave on #Iona: https://t.co/tpKcntSI3i
#NameoftheMonth Who is commemorated in the name Gàrradh Marsaili? Do you know more about this name - get in touch here or via our website! https://t.co/tpKcntSadK
Happy Feast of St #Columba! For June's #NameoftheMonth we're looking at Tòrr an Aba ‘The abbot's hillock’, a small hill overlooking the Abbey which has become inextricably linked to #Iona's first abbot: https://t.co/tpKcntSadK
#Columcille
Image: view of Tòrr an Aba and the Abbey
May #NameoftheMonth: Slochd nam Biast 'Pit of the beasts', a lost name, into which slain druids were thrown according to a 1776 manuscript. More on traditions of #Columba encountering druids when he arrived on #Iona at #Whitsun: https://t.co/tpKcntSadK
Our website is back up again just in time for our March #NameoftheMonth Port Rònain. Thomas Clancy proposes that this name, along with Teampull Rònain, may commemorate the female saint Rónnat. #WomensHistoryMonth https://t.co/tpKcntSadK
While the #IonaNamescape website is down, here is a preview of our February #NameoftheMonth, Goirtean Beag 'Little cornfield' which is located north of Dùn Bhuirg.
December #NameoftheMonth: A’ Chlach Mhòr 'The big stone', also known as St Columba's Table. This may also be the stone mentioned in a medieval text (the preface to the hymn Altus Prosator), there referred to as Bláthnat. Read full post here: https://t.co/tpKcntAyPa
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