Monastery · Ireland · Partial ruin
Glendalough
Gleann Dá Loch
Glendalough is an Early Medieval monastic settlement in a glacial valley of County Wicklow, founded in the 6th century and active through the medieval period. The site contains clustered stone churches, a high round tower, a Romanesque priests' house and a gateway, set beside two lakes and wooded slopes.
Its prime
1150
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1150
What Glendalough looked like in its prime.
Nested in a wooded glacial valley beside two lakes, Glendalough at its peak is a cluster of compact grey mica-schist and granite buildings: a tall cylindrical round tower capped by a stone conical roof; small nave-and-chancel churches with steep overlapping stone roofs and gabled antae; a low Romanesque priests' house with a carved east arch; a two-storey gateway with granite arches; scattered carved high crosses and low stone enclosure walls, all set against green slopes and mountain ridgelines.
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10 places to explore in 1150.
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