The Book of Kells may have been…

795 CE

The Book of Kells may have been produced or begun on Iona towards the end of the eighth century.

Around this time, the island's exemplary high crosses are sculpted; these may be the first such crosses to contain the ring around the intersection that became characteristic of the "Celtic cross".

In the earliest recorded Viking raid on Scotland, Norse raiders attack Iona, Inisbofin and Inismurray.

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