Tour Scotland travel video clip, with Scottish music, of a beehive shaped double cell on Eileach an Naoimh Island on ancestry visit to the Inner Hebrides. These Cells, are they were known, were stone dwellings for Monks. Eileach an Naoimh, also known as Holy Isle, is an uninhabited Scottish island. It is the southernmost of the Garvellachs archipelago and lies in the Firth of Lorne between Mull and Argyll. The name is Gaelic for " rocky place of the saint. " About 542, St. Brendan the Navigator founded a monastery on Eilach, presumed to be the island, possibly because of the combination of its isolation and good grazing. Columba is believed to have visited the island. Eileach an Naoimh may also be the burial site of Eithne the mother of Saint Columba.
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