Down the Glen
Looking down into the valley at the ruins of the monastery at Glendalough, in Ireland's Wicklow Mountains – where the green goes on forever, and on days like this, when the blue sky makes an appearance, you truly consider yourself to have received the luck of the Irish. Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone!
"Glendalough (Irish: Gleann Dá Loch, meaning "The Valley of the two lakes") is a glacial valley in County Wicklow, Ireland. It is renowned for its Early Medieval monastic settlement founded in the 6th century by St Kevin, a hermit priest, and partly destroyed in 1398 by English troops. 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. For six centuries afterwards, Glendalough flourished and the Irish Annals contain references to the deaths of abbots and raids on the settlement." [Wikipedia]
Down the Glen
Looking down into the valley at the ruins of the monastery at Glendalough, in Ireland's Wicklow Mountains – where the green goes on forever, and on days like this, when the blue sky makes an appearance, you truly consider yourself to have received the luck of the Irish. Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone!
"Glendalough (Irish: Gleann Dá Loch, meaning "The Valley of the two lakes") is a glacial valley in County Wicklow, Ireland. It is renowned for its Early Medieval monastic settlement founded in the 6th century by St Kevin, a hermit priest, and partly destroyed in 1398 by English troops. 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. For six centuries afterwards, Glendalough flourished and the Irish Annals contain references to the deaths of abbots and raids on the settlement." [Wikipedia]