Iona
Iona covers an area of 877 hectares (2,167 acres) and is situated just of the coast of Mull's south-westernmost point. Not a mountainous region, the islands highest point Dùn I stands at 100m (328 ft).
Probably the most notable fetaure of this island is Iona Abbey. Renowned as an important religious centre for many years, the abbey has a long and ruinous history. First founded in the year 563 by Columba, an Irish prince, it was soon to be leveled by the Norse in 795. Being constructed of what we may term now as little more than mud and sticks, this was not much of a challenge. However, it was rebuilt...but not for long as those Norse folk soon returned to level it yet again in 798 and 802. Yet again it was reconstructed and yet again it was leveled this time by the Vikings who promptly murdered everyone there in 806. It is said that it was again rebuilt in 1074, and yet more abbey building was done on the ruins of the old monastery in 1203. Most of what you will see today was constructed on this site of many a ruin in the 1500s. and what remained of that was restored by the Church of Scotland at the begining of the 20th century.
