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St. Augustine's Church of Ireland. St. Columba built an abbey on this site ca. 543 and with his supporters departed for exile, over a copyright dispute, on the Island of Iona in 563.

St. Augustine's Church of Ireland. St. Columba built an abbey on this site ca. 543 and with his supporters departed for exile, over a copyright dispute, on the Island of Iona in 563.

The story goes that Columba copied a psalter with the intention of keeping the copy but doing so violated the belief at the time that ownership of a manuscript ran to any copies of that manuscript so keeping a copy was consider theft.