This town is a real hidden gem for any tours of Ireland. A monastery was founded in the 9th century and two granite crosses from around that time have survived. Another survivor is a 12th century Romanesque doorway (though the modern church behind it is not great...
A step through a gateway at the southern end of this straggling town takes visitors back 800 years in an instant, into the stillness of a 13th-century Franciscan friary, which was plundered by Robert Bruce in 1317. Later, in 1541, the friary was suppressed, Only...
Overlooking the basin of the River Barrow and with fine views of the plain that stretches to Dublin are the vestiges of a monastery founded in the 5th century by St Patrick, the patron Saint of Ireland, credited with bringing Christianity to the Island. Like...