Patchwork Fields

Patchwork Fields

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Patchwork Fields

Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland. ================================================
Featured in the Top 10 of Country_Roads Challenge Show_Us_Your_Curves – 25th January 2009. ================================================

There is no other landscape in western Europe with the density and variety of archaeological monuments as the Dingle Peninsula. This mountainous finger of land which juts into the Atlantic Ocean has supported various tribes and populations for almost 6,000 years. Because of the peninsula’s remote location, and lack of specialised agriculture, there is a remarkable preservation of over 2,000 monuments.

The Dingle Peninsula’s isolated location on the edge of the known world was possibly the reason that such a concentration of Early Christian monastic sites were founded there. Today there are over 30 monastic sites with a variety of remains such as oratories, cross slabs, holy wells, beehive huts, shrines, burials, sun dials, and enclosing features.

Canon EOS 350D SLR

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