Abbey's of Ireland

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John King

an arch in the side of a building with stone steps leading to it and another doorway

12th century church doorway Dingle, County Kerry.

an ornate stained glass window in a church

Ireland and the British Isles....

Stained glass window from Kylemore Abbey

two windows in an old stone building overlooking the water

Innisfallen Monastery, Innisfallen Island ,Lakes of Killarney, Ireland

an archway with a stone statue in the middle

Innisfallen Monastery 12 Century Hiberno-Romanesque Church

an archway leading into a stone building with statues on it

Clonmacnoise - 15th century carvings of St. Dominic, St. Patrick and St. Francis over the north doorway of the Cathedral. Clonmacnoise was founded by St. Ciarán in the mid-6th century on the eastern bank of the River Shannon – Co. Offaly, Ireland. The site includes the ruins of a cathedral, seven churches (10th -13th century), two round towers, three high crosses and the largest collection of Early Christian graveslabs in Western Europe.

an old stone building with two people standing in the doorways

The decline of Roman Britain

1,400-900 years ago, Irish Celtic Monks assembled these beehive-shaped stone huts on the rock island of Skellig Michael off the w coast of Ireland. No mortar was used---yet even today these stone huts are still perfectly water-tight! "Skellig" means "Rock". During the Middle Ages high places were often named for the Archangel Michael.

two stone headstones sitting on the side of a hill next to water and hills

Caherdaniel cemetery, Abbey island (Kerry, Ireland)

❦ Caherdaniel cemetery, Abbey island (Kerry, Ireland) by BreizHorizons on Flickr.

an arch in the side of a building made out of rocks and stone with grass growing through it

Innisfallen Abbey

This archway is part of a 7th Century ruin of the monastery on Innisfallen Island. Thirty-nine monks wrote The Annals of Innisfallen at this abbey over a period of 300 years, which details historical events, spanning nearly 1000 years of Irish history.

several pictures of ancient ruins in the ocean

15 Amazing Monasteries, Sanctuaries & Abbies of the World - WebUrbanist

Skellig Michael, an inhospitable rocky island 10 miles off the coast of County Kerry, Ireland, is one of Ireland’s oldest and most famous monasteries. The long-suffering monks, rarely more than a dozen or so, lived in cold & gloomy “beehive” huts made of stone from the year 588 to sometime in the 12th century when they moved to the Irish mainland.