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The Gallarus Oratory (Irish: Séipéilín Ghallarais) is a chapel on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland.It has been presented variously as an early-Christian stone church by antiquary Charles Smith, in 1756; a 12th-century Romanesque church by archaeologist Peter Harbison in 1970; a shelter for pilgrims by the same in 1994.
Dingle's St. Mary's is a neo-Gothic church built to designs by J. J. McCarthy and O'Connell. The foundation stone was laid in 1862. It originally had a nave and aisles separated by arcades, supported on columns capped by octagonal tops. The arcades were demolished in one of the most radical reordering schemes to have been executed in Ireland.
Official name. Cathair na BhFionnúrach Stone fort, huts & souterrain; Ballynavenooragh Stone fort & hut. Reference no. 221.0712. Ballynavenooragh ( / ˌbælɪnəmˈjuːrə ( x )/) ( Irish: Cathair na bhFionnúrach) [2] is a stone fort and National Monument located in County Kerry, Ireland. [3]
The Dingle Peninsula (Irish: Corca Dhuibhne; anglicised as Corkaguiny or Corcaguiny, the name of the corresponding barony) is the northernmost of the major peninsulas in County Kerry. It ends beyond the town of Dingle at Dunmore Head , the westernmost point of Ireland .
Clochán. A clochán on the Dingle Peninsula, Kerry, Ireland. A reconstruction of a square-shaped beehive hut at the Irish National Heritage Park, County Wexford. A clochán (plural clocháin) or beehive hut is a dry-stone hut with a corbelled roof, commonly associated with the south-western Irish seaboard. The precise construction date of most ...
Extent. Southwest Ireland. Type section. Named for. Dingle. The Dingle Group is a Devonian lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) in the Dingle peninsula, Munster, Ireland. The name is derived from the town of Dingle and the peninsula to which it gives its name where the strata are exposed on mountainsides and in coastal cliffs.
Ballintaggart Ogham Stones are located inside a round enclosure (diameter 30 m / 100 ft), immediately east of Dingle racecourse and southeast of the town. History. The stones were carved in the 5th and 6th centuries AD and served as burial markers.
Dunbeg Fort is located on a rocky promontory just south of Slea Head on the Dingle Peninsula, looking over Dingle Bay to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The cliffs have eroded since it was built, and much of the fort has been lost to the sea. [1] The fort's wall cut off access to the triangular promontory, which was later occupied ...