It was rainy and dreary when we left Galway on Thursday but we’d decided to see some villages in the interior so we set our route for Clonmacnoise. It’s an ancient monastic site founded in AD 548 near the banks of the Shannon River. The site has a long, complicated history and a twenty-minute video gave us the full story.
There are many graves and high crosses in very good condition.
And the remains of several churches.
The video, museum with many artifacts, and a walk around the actual site made Clonmacnoise an interesting stop.
If the weather had been better, we would have spent more time exploring the villages in this region but we abandoned that plan and drove on to our next stop Athlone!