Hinba is an island in Scotland of uncertain location that was the site of a small monastery associated with the Columban church on Iona. Although a number of details are known about the monastery and its early superiors, and various anecdotes dating from the time of Columba of a mystical nature have survived, modern scholars are divided as to its whereabouts. The source of information about the island is Adomnán's late 7th-century Vita Columbae.
Columba converting Bridei, son of Maelchon, King of the Picts by William Brassey Hole (1899).
The restored Iona Abbey. In Columba's day all church buildings would have been constructed from wood.
Monk's cell and standing stone, Eileach an Naoimh
Two of the Paps of Jura.
Jura is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, adjacent to and northeast of Islay. With an area of 36,692 hectares (142 sq mi), and 196 inhabitants recorded in the 2011 census, Jura is more sparsely populated than Islay, and is one of the least densely populated islands of Scotland: in a list of the islands of Scotland ranked by size, Jura comes eighth, whereas by population it comes 31st. The island is mountainous, bare and largely infertile, covered by extensive areas of blanket bog.
Craighouse from the pier with the Paps of Jura in the background
A view making clear how the Paps acquired their name, "paps" being an informal English word for breasts or teats.
A Neolithic monument at Tarbert
The remains of Claig Castle, a vital stronghold of Somerled
