Ireland is steeped in history. There are buildings still standing from the 5th and 6th centuries. We visited the ancient ruins on top of Aran Mor on the Aran Islands yesterday. Aran Mor is the largest of the three islands, about 9 miles long and 1 mile wide with 7 “villages” or clusters of houses. About 900 people still live on the three islands.
Dun Aengus, the greatest barbaric monument of the kind in existence, stands on a cliff three hundred feet above the sea. It is a hundred and forty-two feet in diameter, and has two stone walls fifteen feet thick and eighteen high.
Later, we stopped at the “7 churches”, and ancient monastery on the west side of Aran Mor. This monastery was started around 500. It thrived as an austere school for sanctity and learning with as many as 150 disciples at a time living on the island.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01677b.htm
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