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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain . - ↑ "Cille Mhic Eoghainn", Scottish Places
- 1 2 Edmonds, Columba. "Ernan." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 5. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. 14 May 2013]
- ↑ "Scotlands Places". The Scottish Government. n.d. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
- ↑ Adomnan of Iona. Life of St Columba. Penguin books, 1995
- ↑ "Ernaíne m. Colmáin of Tory Island", Saints in Scottish Place-Names
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ernan". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company.
