Glendalough Wicklow

Our tour departed Dublin early in the morning for Glendalough, which is a monastic site in county Wicklow south of Dublin. The ride went through some pretty landscape and took a bit over an hour.

Once there we were taken inside the guest center where we saw a quick film and were able to walk around and look at some of the informative …

On Friday morning, we all went to Glendalough for most of the day. We drove south through the Wicklow Mountains and then were allowed to venture around the area by ourselves. Saw some cool things, but I had already seen some I this from when I came to Ireland for vacation a few years back. There are two lakes there, the upper and lower lake, and …

Hi everyone…Diane taking back the blog for today.

Today started in a somewhat frustrating fashion. We had plans to get on the road early because we wanted to cover a fair amount of ground but really didn't going until after 11:30. Paul was still trying to resolve the internet connection issue and we went to several different places …

I was up and out early (after my usual breakfast) to meet the Collins Tour Coach a few blocks away in Abbey Street. There were only 10 of us on the tour so it was a nice small group. Our Tour Guide for the day was Steve, and driver was Hugh. We left Dublin at 8:45am and drove south arriving in Glendalough by just after 10am. Glendalough is a …

Today, we did a Day Tour of Wicklow!
It started with a coffee stop at Glencree Peace and Recreation Centre, an old Army barracks. Then we continued onto Sally Gap, where P.S. I Love You and Braveheart were filmed. While on the bridge Mom and I over heard a girl say to her friend, "I'm just going to keep walking over this bridge until my …

Glendalough was probably the biggest draw for me in going on this little tour - it's the ruins of a monastic town from the 5th Century AD. Not that the buildings are from that era, most of them are from the 10th Century.

After St. Patrick began the Christianization of Ireland there were a number of monasteries which popped up around the …

Today, we picked up a rental car, left the city and headed out towards the countryside. The countryside is by far my favorite. To begin our trek, we first had to master driving on the left side of the road. We found out that staying on our side of the extremely narrow roads and disabling the parking brake was much harder than driving on the left …

This morning we collected our hire car and drove down to Glendalough to see the 10th Century Monastery of St Kevin …

Day 2 of walking the Wicklow Way. Though, for the record, it was only Km 40-49 of the Wicklow Way, not the whole thing.

After a relatively short (12km) walk, we arrived in Glendalough, famous for its very old monastery and more neat old stuff. Apparently a hermit monk named St. Kevin came here in the 6th century because it was all …

Saturday the 11th we had our first included excursion to Wicklow Mountains National Park and the Glendalough monastery. Unfortunately, I had started feeling really sick at this point, I think due to traveller's sickness from being in a new environment. I had a migraine, stomach cramps, and felt like I needed to puke at some points. I took a ton of …

... this tour in the "Garden of Ireland", which lived up to its name. We then continued further into County Wicklow to the beautiful ancient monastery of Glendalough, founded by St. Kevin in the sixth century. These islands of learning were critical to the ...

glendalough was awesome!!!!!! its in wicklow county, near bray. we took the bus to a national park there. it had some old medieval churches, but then we walked further down these beautiful trails, and came up on some lakes. it was gorgeous outside ...

... and of course, we stopped in a famous pub (Fitzgeralds) for a Guinness. Then we moved on to the ancient monastic settlement of Glendalough. We took a mile hike from the upper lake to the lower lake (thank you, Risa, for making me pack my tennis ...

today i went on a day trip with the international office at uni. we went to glendalough, a 6th century monastic settlement about an hour south of the uni campus. as soon as we got there i realised i'd forgotten my camera, i remembered the spare battery ...

I'm just throwing a few pictures up here from our field trip to Glendalough in Co. Wicklow as I am very far behind on my ...

Our tour departed Dublin early in the morning for Glendalough, which is a monastic site in county Wicklow south of Dublin. The ride went through some pretty landscape and took a bit over an hour. Once there we were taken inside the guest center where we ...

... St. Patrick began the Christianization of Ireland there were a number of monasteries which popped up around the countryside and Glendalough was one of these communities. One figure associated with this site is St. Kevin, a hermit who settled in ...

The Wicklow Way is Ireland’s most popular way marked trail- winding over 100 kilometres through the high heather hills south of Dublin. It’s proximity to the city means that at its northern end at least, it gets a fair amount of traffic. That ...

... both young and old, at the pub!! They were so much fun to hang out with and we had a great time with all of them! We had the chance to go hiking out in Glendalough and explore the Wicklow Mountains! Thanks again for taking us around Daragh and Stephen :) ...

... I think we were the barrier between them! Sunday we hired a car and headed south of Dublin to a beautiful little place called Glendalough. It is a very old religious site where an old monk Kevin went to live alone - except all the other monks thought ...