inchagoill early monastery

Little or nothing is known of the history of the monastery; its name signifies 'Island of the Foreigners'. Two churches remain. St. Patrick's was originally a simple rectangular church, with a flat-headed doorway, but a chancel was later added to it. Linked to it by an old roadway is The Saint's Church, which is a Romanesque nave-and-chancel church restored in the last century by Sir Benjamin Guinness.

Its main feature is the fine Romanesque west doorway with heads on the capitals and on the outer order of the arches. It has a simple rounded chancel arch and a small round-headed east window. There is an early cross-slab in the south-western corner of the nave. Not far from the church is a pillar with an inscription LIE LUGUAEDON MACCI MENUEH (The stone of Luguaedon son of Menueh), which may be a transliteration of an older Ogham inscription.