including pilgrims. It is believed that around 800AD the original wooden chapel was replaced by a stone chapel.

Columba's monastery was surrounded by a ditch and earth bank, part of which is believed to have pre-existed Columba's arrival, and part of which can still be seen to the north-west of the current abbey buildings.

Columba's day room

Adomnán describes a building on a small mound, Torr an Aba, in the monastery grounds where Columba worked and wrote. Charred wood has been dated

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