Celtic Cross in Church Ruins
A weathered Celtic cross marks one of many graves inside the stone walls of Dysert O’Dea church, built on the site of an early Christian monastery founded by Saint Tola in the 8th Century...
irish history
Red Gate at Coole Estate, County Galway, Ireland
A red gate accessorizes a carefully hewn stone wall at the Coole Park Estate of Lady Gregory, the Irish dramatist and folklorist who opened her home and spectacular parklands in County Galway, Ireland, to...
Killone Lake in County Clare, Ireland
Killone Lake shimmers in the Autumn breeze in this view from 12th Century Killone Abbey near Ennis in County Clare, Ireland. Established in 1190 by Donal O’Brien, the King of Thomond and Munster, Killone...
Ruins at 12th Century Killone Abbey
The bell no longer tolls over County Clare’s Killone Abbey, once home to aristocratic Augustinian nuns. Now one of Ireland’s National Monuments, the Abbey was established in 1190 and abandoned in the late 1600s.
Lake from 12th Century Killone Abbey
A weathered stone arch in the ruins of 12th Century Killone Abbey frames this Autumn view of Killone Lake in County Clare, Ireland.
