Isle Of Iona With Music On History Visit To Inner Hebrides Of Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4K aerial travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the Isle of Iona, Scottish Gaelic: Ì Chaluim Chille, on ancestry, history visit and trip to the Inner Hebrides, Britain, United Kingdom. The island, off the Ross of Mull, is one of the oldest and most important religious centres in Western Europe. It was a focal point for the spread of Christianity throughout Scotland and marks the foundation of a monastic community by Saint Columba. Many early Scottish kings and chiefs, as well as kings from Ireland, Norway and France are buried here including Duncan, the victim of Macbeth. One of the great delights of Iona are its beaches. The main settlement, located at St. Ronan's Bay on the eastern side of the island, is called Baile Mòr and is also known locally as The Village. In the early Historic Period Iona lay within the Gaelic kingdom of Dál Riata, in the region controlled by the Cenél Loairn, Lorn, as it was then. The island was the site of a highly important monastery during the Early Middle Ages. The monastery was founded in 563 by the monk Saint Columba, also known as Colm Cille, who sailed here from Ireland to live the monastic life. Much later legends, a thousand years later, and without any good evidence, said that he had been exiled from his native Ireland as a result of his involvement in the Battle of Cul Dreimhne. Columba and twelve companions went into exile on Iona and founded a monastery there. The monastery was hugely successful, and may have played a role in the conversion to Christianity of the Picts and Gaels of present day Scotland in the late 6th century, and was certainly central to the conversion of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria in 635. Many satellite institutions were founded, and Iona became the centre of one of the most important monastic systems in Great Britain and Ireland. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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