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Like many early Christian sites in Kerry, it is said to have been founded by Saint Fionán in the early 6th century, though this is doubted by historians. [25] Many of the islands off the south-west coast of Ireland have early Christian monasteries; the region was favoured because of its isolation and the abundance of rock for building.
Saint Macdara's Island (Irish: Cruach na Cara) [2] is a small island off the coast of County Galway in Ireland on which stands a mediaeval Christian monastery and National Monument. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Location
This is a list of megalithic monument on the island of Ireland. Megalithic monuments are found throughout Ireland , and include burial sites (including passage tombs , portal tombs and wedge tombs (or dolmens) ) and ceremonial sites (such as stone circles and stone rows ).
A clochán (plural clocháin) or beehive hut is a dry-stone hut with a corbelled roof, commonly associated with the south-western Irish seaboard. The precise construction date of most of these structures is unknown with the buildings belonging to a long-established Celtic tradition, though there is at present no direct evidence to date the ...
Inishmore is the name of the tenth album by the New York heavy metal forefathers Riot (now going under Riot V moniker) and loosely based on tales of Irish famine and emigration, employing many Celtic/Irish sounding passages, as well as an instrumental cover of a well known Irish song Danny Boy.
It is said that people don't come home for Christmas to the small western Irish village of Carna, they come back for St. MacDara's Day. Pilgrimage to tiny Irish island keeps local fishermen safe ...
The Gallarus Oratory (Irish: Séipéilín Ghallarais) is a chapel on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland.It has been presented variously as an early-Christian stone church by antiquary Charles Smith, in 1756; a 12th-century Romanesque church by archaeologist Peter Harbison in 1970; a shelter for pilgrims by the same in 1994.
Teampall Molaise, the principal church of the monastery, as seen from the north with the mainland in the background. Inishmurray (Irish: Inis Muireadheach, meaning 'Muireadheach's island' [1] or Irish: Inis Muirígh) [2] [3] [4] is an uninhabited island situated 7 km (4 mi) off the coast of County Sligo, Ireland.