Description
Devenish, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
Devenish contains one of the finest monastic sites in Northern Ireland. At its centre is a 30 meter high round tower thought to date back to the twelfth century, 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 centre 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.
