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MacLean's Cross is free to visit and is open year-round.

How to get here

On Iona, about 250 metres south of Iona Abbey.

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Address

Street of the Dead
Iona

National Grid reference:

NM 285 242

Workers in hi-vis and hard hats stand by as a carved stone is carefully lifted using a crane.

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