Ireland - Munster
Gallarus Oratory & Castle
( Sightseeing / Religious Buildings )
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Gallarus
Co. Kerry Ireland |
A couple of kilometers’ drive past Ballyferriter brings you to the Gallarus Oratory (Séipéilín Ghallarais). Over 1,000 years ago many of St. Brendan’s contemporaries lived on the Dingle Peninsula in unmortared, beehive-shaped stone huts called clochans. The most famous example is the Gallarus Oratory, a tiny church built not as a circle, but in the shape of an upturned boat. It has a small window at one end, a small door at the other, and is as watertight today as when it was built over 900 years ago. A privately run enterprise offers a little visitors’ center and a café, and charges a fee to cross their land to visit the monument. If you would rather not pay a fee, drive up the adjacent, public road and the monument is signed a short walk to your left.
The nearby Gallarus Castle, dating back to the 15th century, is a four story rectangular stone tower. The building is one of the few remaining castles on the Dingle Peninsula and is available for tours.
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