Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of the Nunnery on ancestry visit to Isle of Iona, Inner Hebrides, Britain, United Kingdom. This is one of the oldest and most important religious centres in Western Europe. The Iona Nunnery was an Augustinian convent established sometime after the foundation of the nearby Benedictine monastery in 1203. Bethóc, daughter of Somerled, was first prioress. After the Reformation, the priory was dissolved and reduced to a ruin. The construction of the Iona Nunnery follows the typical Irish style. The Church consists of a building with three bays with a passage to the north side and a small chapel on the east side of the passage. The monastic cloister measures 14 metres square, but it was originally smaller. The east wing had three rooms on ground level, above was the dormitory. The south wing contained the refectory. In the sixteenth century a floor was added. This was one of the two Augustinian nunneries in Scotland, St. Leonards Nunnery located at Perth, Perthshire, being the other. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome.
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