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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.
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 ...
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]
Pre-Romanesque remains include a corbelled building, perhaps a monastic cell; an alphabet stone; an Ogham stone; a sundial; a stone cross; and some bullauns. [8] [14] One of the bullauns is associated with the mythical cow Glas Gaibhnenn. [15] The alphabet stone is carved with "DNI" (domini) and the Latin alphabet in uncial script, carved c. AD ...
Garfinny Bridge is a dry stone bridge made without mortar: the arch consists of radial stones which ‘spring’ from stones projecting over the river in a corbelling technique. [4][5][6] It is the only bridge to be an Irish National Monument. [7]
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.