Tag: Iona

• Holy islands: monks, hermits and the edge of the world

  

  Skellig Michael, Iona, Lindisfarne, Bardsey: I checked 20,228 monasteries, abbeys and hermitages across Europe against a detailed shoreline. Before 800, 4.3% of dated houses stood on islands; after 1100, about one in a hundred.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  data visualisation, early medieval, history, Iona, islands, maps, monasteries, Skellig Michael, Wikidata