Argyll - The Rough Guide to Scottish Highlands and Islands - page 81

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part of the stern belonging to Guy Mannering , a sailing packet on the New York to
Liverpool route which sank in machair in 1865 - indeed, it was just one of twenty or so
vessels believed to have been lost in waters hereabouts around that time. At a bend in the
road, just south of the manse, stands the slender, fifteenth-century MacLean's Cross , a fine,
late medieval example of the distinctive, flowing, three-leaved foliage of the Iona school.

Iona Abbey
North of the Augustinian nunnery • Daily: April-Sept 9.30am-5.30pm; Oct-March 9.30am-4.30pm; there are free daily guided tours of
the abbey (the times are posted up at the ticket o ce) • £7.10; HS • T 01681 700512
A five-minute walk up the road from the heritage centre stands Iona Abbey . Although
no buildings remain from Columba's time, the present abbey dates from the arrival of
the Benedictines in around 1200, though it was extensively rebuilt in the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries, and restored virtually wholesale last century.

St Oran's Chapel
Iona's oldest building, the plain-looking eleventh-century St Oran's Chapel , lies south of
the abbey, to your right. Legend has it that the original chapel could only be completed

, Dún I & the north end beaches

ACCOMMODATION
Argyll
Cnoc-Oran Camping
Iona Hostel

BAILE MÓR

Shop

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MacLeod
Centre Abbey Museum

RESTAURANT
Martyr's Bay
Restaurant

The Abbey

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Ticket Office

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St Oran's Chapel

Reilig
Odhráin

Bishop's
House

Iona
Heritage
Centre

MacLean's
Cross

School

Augustinian
nunnery

Library

St Ronans
Bay Village

Hall

Post
Office

Finlay Ross
General Store

Toilets

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