Gallarus Oratory, a small chapel built as many as 1,300 years ago, on Ireland's Dingle Peninsula. Ancient ruins along Slea Head Drive on Ireland's Dingle Peninsula.

One of the most beautiful ancient buildings in Ireland, the mysterious and serene Gallarus Oratory, is also the most distinctive single monument of the Dingle Peninsula - an area rich in ...

Located on the Slea Head near Dingle, County Kerry, Gallarus Oratory is surrounded by stunning scenery. Believed to be 1000 years old, the Oratory is the last intact building of its kind in Ireland.

I stood, cold and bemused, in Gallarus oratory, that tiny stone-built chapel, shaped into an upside-down coracle, on the Dingle peninsula in Kerry. Behind me, ...

Nearly fifty years ago on the Dingle Peninsula of Ireland’s County Kerry, a young Seamus Heaney entered the Gallarus Oratory, a dry-stone chapel “about the size of a large turf-stack,” and ...

Gallarus Oratory is one of the finest examples of an Early Christian Church in these islands and is the most popular archaeological site of more than 2,000 monuments on the Dingle Peninsula.The ...

I realise that the Gallarus Oratory is already fairly busy dealing with tourists, being among the must-see attractions of the Dingle Peninsula. Even so, it struck me on a recent visit that it ...

Gallarus Oratory Ireland Tourism Tucked away on the northern part of the peninsula, the Gallarus Oratory appears like a portal in the landscape. One of Ireland’s iconic archaeological sites ...

Setting out, we take the gravelled path - signposted Gallarus Oratory - towards that unique stone structure created 13 centuries ago.

The famously watertight Gallarus Oratory on the Dingle Peninsula is listed beside the world’s greatest feats of architecture in a new book called Amazing Architecture: A Spotter’s Guide.