Month: November 2024

Ireland is called the Land or Island of Saints and Scholars. It is land of saints because of the rapid foundation of Christianity after its arrival in 400 A.D. As a result, monasteries and clerical institutions rose from the local stone throughout the late 5th through 9th Centuries. Pictured in the accompanying video, some of […]

In Ireland, the Rock of Cashel stands as the most complete complex of historical structures from the Medieval Ages. In a self-guided tour of the site, you view excellent examples of: 1. early Christian architecture, (the Round Tower;) 2. Romanesque (newly-restored Cormac’s Chapel, frescoes;) and, 3. Gothic, (ruins of the main cathedral, built between A.D. […]