Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Glendalough Monastery, Ireland

UK & Ireland x OC RR, Group240, from chrissybaby

This a picturesque view of Glendalough, a small monastery located south of Dublin.

Glendalough (Irish: Gleann Dá Loch, meaning "Glen of Two Lakes") is a glacial valley located in County Wicklow, Ireland, renowned for its Early Medieval monastic settlement founded in the 6th century by St Kevin, a hermit priest, and destroyed in 1398 by English troops.

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