CATHEDRAL CLONFERT
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To get to Clonfert from Galway, take the N 6 towards Dublin. Clonfert is indicated in the vicinity of Ballinasloe (60 km from Galway). 563 th century cathedral, which is said to be built on the site of a monastery founded by St. Brendan in. It must be recognized that his porch deserves all the detours and returns to observe it at length. Undoubtedly, this is the most beautiful portal in Ireland. Not that it is monumental, on the contrary, it is its intimate character that keeps the attention. Its pillars, of all human proportions, are symmetrically sculpted with different motifs (web, escutcheons, crossed lines), as well as its arches (gueules wolves, or balls decorated with floral motifs). The most surprising of these is the triangular contour of five heads in niches surmounted, within this triangular form, of faces which arise in the middle of fifteen triangles (the geometric figure in the geometrical figure). There is an example of unique decoration in the Romanesque art.
