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Galway Monastery
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Headford, Galway
Kilcoona derives its name from St Cuana who founded a monastery here in the 7th century. Cuana is noted as one of the ancient Irish writers and the - Annals of Cuana - are attributed to him. These writings bring the chronology of our country down the year 628 A.D. Nothing remains of the original monastic buildings of church but the existing ruins, which have recently been conserved date from the 12th century....
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Inchagoill, Galway, Galway
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 an...
Connemara Countryside
Connemara, Galway
Roundstone Bog and Wilderness Walk:

Connemara's finest hill and bog walk through Errisbeg and Roundstone Bog. A world heritage site with its hundreds of lakes and islands, Dogs Bay the regions finest beach, Inis Ni and the Aran Islands. See the landing site of the first ever non-stop transatlantic flight and Marconi station, where the first ever flight transatlantic radio messages were transmitted to Nova Scotia, Canada 1907.

12 Bens Mountain Walk:

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High Island, Galway, Galway
The monastery was probably founded by St. Feichin of Fore who died in 664. St. Gormgall 'Chief Confessor of Ireland' died and was buried here in 1017. One of the important manuscripts of the Life of St. Feichin was written on the island. The most important ruin is a rectangular church, with a flat-headed doorway.

The doorway may not be original as the lintel of the door is an old cross-slab. The east end of the church is destroyed. Around the church are the remains of beehive huts,...
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Galway County
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