Glendalough
Sign in to saveGlendalough (; ) is a glacial valley in County Wicklow, Ireland, renowned for an Early Medieval monastic settlement founded in the 6th century by St Kevin. From 1825 to 1957, the head of the Glendalough Valley was the site of a galena lead mine. Glendalough is also a recreational area for picnics, for walking along networks of maintained trails of varying difficulty, and also for rock climbing.
Key facts
- Monastery.name
- Glendalough
- Monastery.native_name_lang
- ga
- Monastery.image
- St._Kevin's_Kitchen,_Glendalough,_Co._Wicklow_(2023).jpg
- Monastery.order
- Celtic Christianity
- Monastery.founder
- Saint Kevin
- Monastery.established
- 6th century
- Monastery.disestablished
- 1398
- Monastery.diocese
- Glendalough (to 1185)Dublin and Glendalough (1185–1398)
- Monastery.status
- Inactive
- Monastery.style
- Irish monastic, Romanesque
- Monastery.location
- County Wicklow
- Monastery.map_type
- Ireland
- Monastery.public_access
- yes
- Monastery.remains
- Round tower, gateway, cathedral, several churches
- Designation list.embed
- yes
- Designation list.designation2
- National Monument of Ireland
- Designation list.designation2_offname
- Glendalough
- Designation list.designation2_number
- 134
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Article
37 sectionsContents
- History
- See of Glendalough
- Church of Ireland succession
- Catholic succession
- Titular bishops
- Annalistic references
- Monuments in the Lower Glen
- Gateway
- Round Tower
- St. Peter and St. Pauls' Cathedral
- Priests' House
- St. Kevin's Church or "Kitchen"
- St. Ciarán's Church
- St. Mary's or Our Lady's Church
- Trinity Church
- St. Saviour's Church
- The Deer Stone
- Monuments near the Upper Lough
- Reefert Church
- St. Kevin's Cell
- St. Kevin's Bed
- The "Caher"
- Temple-na-Skellig
- Miner's Village
- Nature
- Geography
- Vegetation
- Wildlife
- Recreation
- Walking trails
- Rock climbing
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
Glendalough (; ) is a glacial valley in County Wicklow, Ireland, renowned for an Early Medieval monastic settlement founded in the 6th century by St Kevin. From 1825 to 1957, the head of the Glendalough Valley was the site of a galena lead mine. Glendalough is also a recreational area for picnics, for walking along networks of maintained trails of varying difficulty, and also for rock climbing.
==History== thumb|upright=1.6|Lower Lake and Monastic Village from Brockagh Mountain Kevin, a descendant of one of the ruling families in Leinster, studied as a boy under the care of three holy men: Eoghan, Lochan and Eanna. During this time, he went to Glendalough. He was to return later, with a small group of monks to found a monastery where the 'two rivers form a confluence'. Kevin's writings discuss his fighting "knights" at Glendalough; scholars today believe this refers to his process of self-examination and his personal temptations. His fame as a holy man spread and he attracted numerous followers. He died in about 618, traditionally on 3 June. For the next six centuries, Glendalough flourished and the Irish Annals contain references to the deaths of abbots and raids on the settlement.
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