These are taken at the monastic site founded by St. Kevin in the 6th century. The completely stone building is St. Kevin's Church of the Kitchen, and Vikings couldn't burn it since it was all stone. The picture of the door is the inside of the church. The single tower isn't the same one on the Church, and had the door 15 feet of the ground. People thought it was so Vikings couldn't enter- but they could have just built a ladder. It was really because the grass would grow up so tall, so they made the first floor up 15 feet, and used the area underneath for storage, even if it was grassy. Some of the grave markers had dates all the way back to the 15th century, and the high cross pictured was from the 9th century.
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