Travel Guide Glendalough

Glendalough is a place of soothing beauty and spirituality. Surrounded by celtic tombstones and Celtic crosses submerged by vegetation, the ruins of the monastery lie in the heart of the Wicklow Mountains, close to two lakes (Lower Lake and Upper Lake). The monastery of Glendalough (Gleann da Loch, which means the valley of the two lakes), one of the first of Ireland, was founded in the century by Saint Kevin. Buildings (the 33 m high round tower, St. Peter's Cathedral and St. Paul's Church, St. Kevin's Church, Reefert Church), which can be seen nowadays, date from the th and th centuries. Attacked by the Vikings at least four times between 775 and 1071, then by the English in 1378, the monastery was left to abandon upon the dissolution of the monasteries by Henri VIII.