Glendalough, Leinster, Ireland

Tourists or walkers at Glendalough, Co. Wicklow with the Round Tower and St. Kevin's Oratory in the background...Thanks to MKSeery ( 39393844@N04/ ) for the following:."Might as well throw in some dear old George Petrie. His assessment of the oratory in 1845 was:.. That this building, in its original state, was at once the habitation and oratory of the eminent ecclesiastic to whom the religious establishment of Glendalough owed its origin, I see no reason to doubt; and it is highly probable that it received, shortly after his death, those additions which were necessary to make it a church, fit for the worship of those who would be led thither from reverence to his name; and in this opinion I am strengthened by a very valuable record in the Annals of the Four Masters, which proves, that this building was known by the appellation of Cro Caoimhghin, or St. Kevin’s House, in the middle of the twelfth century. The passage is as follows:. ‘A. D. 1163. Glendalough was burned with Cro Cairain, Cro Caoimhghin, and the church of the two Sinchells’..Petrie also drew about a million sketches of the antiquities at Glendalough!"..Date: September 1961..NLI Ref.: TIL740 ( vtls000191596 )