The county of Wicklow, just south of Dublin, has great variety of scenery within its boarders.  It is known as the 'Garden of Ireland.'  Glendalough in Wicklow Mountains, is a monastic site that was founded by St. Kevin in the sixth century.  The Gateway arches (below, center) lead you into the cashel where you will find the often-photographed Round Tower, remains of several churches and cathedrals, and old gravestones.
  Connection with Joyce: big, because Joyce often mentioned Glendalough and Wicklow Mountains in relation to St. Kevin and Lawrence O'Toole.  See especially A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake.

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Ashford		Near Ashford
	gwm2002-288	(Friday 28 June) Little girls at Avoca Handweavers Showroom near Ashford
	gwm2002-289	(Friday 28 June) At Avoca Handweavers Showroom near Ashford. Little girls.
The monastic city of Glendalough		The monastic city of Glendalough
	gwm2002-290	(Friday 28 June) Near Glendalough Visitor Centre.  "Glendalough, the valley of the two lakes, is renowned for its Early Medieval monastic settlement founded by St. Kevin in the sixth century."
	gwm2002-291	(Friday 28 June) Gateway to the monastic city of Glendalough.  "The gateway to the monastic city of Glendalough is one of the most important monuments, now totally unique in Ireland.  It was originally-two-storied with two fine, granite arches.  The antae or projecting walls at each end suggest that it had a timber roof.  Inside the gateway, in the west wall, is a cross-inscribed stone.  This denoted sanctuary, the boundary of the area of refuge.  The paving of the causeway in the monastic city is still preserved in part but very little remains of the enclosure wall."
	gwm2002-292	(Friday 28 June) The monastic city
	gwm2002-293	(Friday 28 June) The round tower. "The fine tower, built of mica-slate interspersed with granite is about 30 meters from the base. The conical roof was rebuilt in 1876 using the original stones. The tower originally had six timber floors, connected by ladders. The four stories above entrance level are each lit by a small window; while the top storey has four windows facing the cardinal compass points. Round towers, landmarks for approaching visitors, were built as bell-towers, but also served on occasion as store-houses and as places of refuge in times of attack."
	gwm2002-294	(Friday 28 June) The Cathedral.  "The largest and most imposing of the buildings at Glendalough, the Cathedral had several phases of construction, the earliest, consisting of the present nave with its antae.  The large mica-schist stones which can be seen up to the height of the square-headed west doorway were re-used from an earlier smaller church.  The chancel and sacristy date from the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries.  The chancel arch and east window were finely decorated, though many of the stones are now missing.  The north doorway to the nave also dates from this period.  Under the southern window of the chancel is an ambry or wall cupboard and a piscina, a basin used for washing the sacred vessels."
	gwm2002-295	(Friday 28 June) Inside of The Cathedral.
	gwm2002-296	(Friday 28 June) St. Kevin's Cross.  "A few meters south of the Cathedral an early cross of local granite, with an unpierced ring, is commonly known as St. Kevin's Cross."
	gwm2002-297	(Friday 28 June) The Priests' House.  "Almost Totally reconstructed from the original stones, based on a 1779 sketch made by Beranger.  The Priests' House is a small Romanesque building, with a decorative arch at the east end.  It gets its name from the practice of interring priests there in the eighteenth centuries.  Its original purpose is unknown although it may have been used to house relics of St. Kevin."
	gwm2002-298	(Friday 28 June) St. Kevin's Church.  "This stone roofed building originally had a nave only, with entrance at the west end and a small round headed window in the east gable.  The upper part of the window can be seen above what became the chancel arch, when the chancel, now missing, the sacristy were added later.  The steep roof, formed of overlapping stones, is supported internally by a semi-circular vault.  Access to the croft or roof chamber was through a rectangular opening towards the western end of the vault. The church also had a timber first floor.  The belfry with its conical cap and four small windows rises from the west end of the stone roof in the form of a miniature round tower."
	gwm2002-299	(Friday 28 June) St. Kevin's Church
Vale of Glendalough		Vale of Glendalough
	gwm2002-301	(Friday 28 June) Guideboard of Glendalough near the lower lake
	gwm2002-300	(Friday 28 June) Lower Lake, Vale of Glendalough
	gwm2002-302	(Friday 28 June) Poulanass Waterfall, near the upper lake
	gwm2002-303	(Friday 28 June) Poulanass Waterfall
	gwm2002-304	(Friday 28 June) Near the waterfall and Reefert Church
	gwm2002-305	(Friday 28 June) Upper Lake, Vale of Glendalough.  The famous "St. Kevin's Bed" here along the lakeside.  "At the Synod of Rath Breasail in 1111, Glendalough was designated as one of the two dioceses of North Leinster.  St. Lawrence O'Toole, born in 1128, became Abbot of Glendalough and was well known for his sanctity and hospitality.  Even after his appointment as Archbishop of Dublin in 1162, he returned occasionally to Glendalough, to the solitude of St. Kevin's Bed.  He died in Eu, in Normandy in 1180."
	gwm2002-306	(Friday 28 June) Irish musician near the Gateway
Wicklow Mountains		Wicklow Mountains
	gwm2002-307	(Friday 28 June) Viewed somewhere along R115, Wicklow Mountains
	gwm2002-308	(Friday 28 June) Viewed somewhere along R115, Wicklow Mountains
	gwm2002-309	(Friday 28 June) Viewed somewhere along R115, Wicklow Mountains