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Kilmalkedar Church, Ballyferriter, Dingle, Ireland Kilmalkedar Church, Ballyferriter, Dingle, Ireland KILMALKEDAR CHURCH – Cillmaolceadair – is the most important church site on the Dingle Peninsula. The site is traditionally associated with St. Brendan, but was reputedly founded by Maolcethair, whose death is recorded in the Martyrology of Donegal under the year 636. There are no remains of the early monastery except possibly for the Ogham stone with the inscription of "Anm Maile Inbir Maci Brocann". The ruined church visible today dates to the first half of the 12th century, and certain features were copied from the Romanesque Chapel on the Rock of Cashel. Also visible on the site are a sundial, large stone cross, and alphabet stone (inside the church near the chancel arch). Some fine stone carving can also be found inside the church. More info: The ancient monastery of Kilmalkedar, founded in the seventh century by St Maolcathair, is one of the foremost Early Christian sites of the Dingle Peninsula. The existing church is a twelfth-century building consisting of a nave to which a chancel was added at a later date, as was the usual practice. Many of the features which typify Irish Romanesque architecture are present. The bold antae with animal-head decoration are well preserved, as is the round-headed doorway with blank tympanum. The high pitched gables (one with finial) survive intact, but of the original barrel-vaulted roof only the merest fragments remain. In the nave is a good example of blind colonnading, recalling Cormac's Chapel at Cashel, with which it is often compared. late-Romanesque geometric motifs adorn the columns of the chancel arch. A number of interesting objects stand outside the church. These include a tall slender Ogham stone perforated with a circular hole near the top, a large ringless cross devoid of any decoration and therefore possibly unfinished and a beautiful sundial stone marked in segments corresponding to the divisions of the monastic day. in the land of the blind the one eyed machine is king abandoned digger hidden out of sight of road on road to Achill Island, Co Mayo, Ireland See also: canopy for gazebo plantation shutter pictures arrow security shutters poly wood shutters beds drapes gazebo drapes hunter douglas horizontal blinds rod roman shades |