Church Island (Valentia Harbour)

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Church Island
Oileán an Teampaill [1]
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Location within Ireland
Monastery information
Established7th century AD
Disestablishedbefore 1100
Diocese Kerry
Architecture
Statusruined
Style Celtic
Site
Location Valentia Harbour, County Kerry
Coordinates 51°56′15″N10°17′00″W / 51.937597°N 10.283343°W / 51.937597; -10.283343
Public accessyes
Official nameChurch Island (Valentia Harbour) Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Site [2]
Reference no.59

Church Island is a medieval Christian monastery and National Monument located in Valentia Harbour, Ireland. [3]

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Location

Church Island is located on a 1-acre (0.4 ha) island in Valentia Harbour, immediately west of Beginish, 1.4 km (0.87 mi) north of Knightstown. [4]

History

The island was anciently a centre for iron smelting.

The monastery was established in the 7th century AD. [5]

Excavations by M. J. O'Kelly in 1955–56 turned up the remnants of a wooden oratory and a cross inscribed with Ogham. [6] [7] [8] [9] It also gave evidence of the diet of the monks: cod, ballan wrasse, oats, barley, gannet, shag, cormorant, goose, duck, beef, mutton, pork, goat meat, horsemeat and seal. [10]

Description

Contains the remains of a stone oratory, clochán (possibly a hospitium ), [11] and holy well.

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References

  1. ↑ "Oileán an Teampaill/Church Island". Logainm.ie.
  2. ↑ "National Monuments in State Care: Ownership & Guardianship" (PDF). Ireland: National Monuments Service. 4 March 2009. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  3. ↑ Lynch, P. J. (8 March 2018). "Church Island, Valentia Harbour, Co. Kerry". The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 10 (2): 155–160. JSTOR   25507048.
  4. ↑ GoKerry.ie. "Church Island, Valentia Harbour, Valentia Island - GoKerry". www.gokerry.ie.
  5. ↑ Ireland, Royal Society of Antiquaries of (1901). Journal – via Internet Archive. Church Island valentia.
  6. ↑ "The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland". The Society. 8 March 2018 – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ Hendroff, Adrian (30 March 2015). Killarney to Valentia Island – The Iveragh Peninsula: A Walking Guide. The Collins Press. ISBN   9781848895522 – via Google Books.
  8. ↑ "Church island, valencia harbour, County Kerry". www.earlychristianireland.net.
  9. ↑ Activeme.ie. "Church Island Monastic Settlement, Valentia Harbour, Kerry, Ireland – Things to See and Do - Activeme.ie". www.activeme.ie.
  10. ↑ "The unknown Kerry beauty of Church Island laying low to the surrounding Lough Kay". 20 November 2017.
  11. ↑ Addleshaw, George William Outram (8 March 1973). The Pastoral Structure of the Celtic Church in Northern Britain. Borthwick Publications. ISBN   9780900701375 – via Google Books.
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