Scotland's History Early Scotland Columba founds a monastery on Iona The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to ...

In 2018, researchers reportedly discovered the ancient remains of a lost monastery in North East Scotland where monks had written the historic Book of Deer. According to BBC, the legendary ...

Visitors to an ancient monastery have said they are "dismayed" about proposals to close it during the winter. Furness Abbey, on the outskirts of Barrow, Cumbria, was founded about 900 years ago ...

The Gaelic kings of Dál Riata gave Columba land to found a monastery. For the next two ... Video: A history of Scotland: The Last of the Free.