Devenish Island ruins, Lough Erne. County Fermanagh, Ireland photographed by the Detroit Publishing Company circa 1890-1900. Devenish contains one of the finest monastic sites in Northern Ireland. A round tower thought to date from the 12th century is sit

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Devenish Island ruins, Lough Erne. County Fermanagh, Ireland photographed by the Detroit Publishing Company circa 1890-1900. Devenish contains one of the finest monastic sites in Northern Ireland. A round tower thought to date from the 12th century is situated on the island, as are the walls of the Oratory of Saint Molaise who established the monastery in the 6th century, on a pilgrim route to Croagh Patrick in County Mayo. It became a center of scholarship and although raided by Vikings in 837 and burned in 1157, it later flourished as the site of the parish church and St Mary's Augustinian Priory. The round tower is 100 feet tall and features a sculptured Romanesque cornice of heads and ornament under the conical stone roof.

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