Above: Picture of Pennine Alps The great name of St. Columcille is held dear by the descendants of the Scots both in Erin and in Alba. The people of the Hebrides invoke his aid to this day in their annual Shealing Hymn, and the stone flag on which he was born at Gartan is worn bare by the hands and feet of pious pil-f'ims. Yet he has his full habitation throughout even a wider area, and even in his own time ... Read More

Above: View of Port-na-Churraich, where St. Colcumcille landed his coracle St. Columcille and his companions landed at Iona in 563 at the little bay of Port-na-Churraich, the ' Bay of the Coracle,' on the southern shore of the island. Above the bay on a hill is the cairn, that has been known since his time as the ' Carn-cul-ri-Erin,' ' The Cairn of the Back turned to Ireland,' which marks the spot where the exile found that Ireland was no longer in ... Read More