Iona’s Namescape: Place-Names and Their Dynamics in Iona and Its Environs

Celtic Studies, Languages and Literature

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Gaelicgeographymapsplace namesScotland

Dataset type

spatial

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Description

Iona is a site of exceptional historical, archaeological, and religious interest, and has been since its foundation as a monastery around AD 563. Despite the multiple ways in which Iona has been of interest to scholars and the general public, its complex legacy of place-names has never been the subject of sustained scholarly investigation.

This project, funded by the AHRC, interrogates the dynamics of the namescape, the historical and changing landscape of names, of Iona and its environs, shedding light on its past and its complex present, and proposing new ways of curating place-names as part of heritage management.

Authors

Thomas Owen Clancy (Pi), Alasdair Whyte (Co-investigator), Katherine Forsythe (Co-investigator)

Affiliation

University of Glasgow (PI), National Trust for Scotland (Co-I), Historic Environment Scotland (Co-I)