Rosscarbery Parish Church
A wide-angle perspective of St. Fachtna’s Parish Church (1820), Rosscarbery, Co. Cork, Ireland.
Historically, Rosscarbery was home to the School of Ross, a major centre of learning, at one time being a university town, and one of the major cities in Europe, around the 6th century.
Due to its popularity as a center of pilgrimage it was also known as Ros Ailithir. The hereditary chieftains of the area, or tuath, were the O'Leary, known as Uí Laoghaire Ruis Ó gCairbre, until it passed to Norman control in the early thirteenth century.
Rosscarbery Parish Church
A wide-angle perspective of St. Fachtna’s Parish Church (1820), Rosscarbery, Co. Cork, Ireland.
Historically, Rosscarbery was home to the School of Ross, a major centre of learning, at one time being a university town, and one of the major cities in Europe, around the 6th century.
Due to its popularity as a center of pilgrimage it was also known as Ros Ailithir. The hereditary chieftains of the area, or tuath, were the O'Leary, known as Uí Laoghaire Ruis Ó gCairbre, until it passed to Norman control in the early thirteenth century.