Qualla: Killemlagh Church https://qualla.com/killemlagh-church en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/w/killemlagh-church-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Killemlagh Church https://qualla.com/killemlagh-church Killemlagh Church: Introduction https://qualla.com/killemlagh-church/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. The walls are three feet thick and eleven feet high, and they have held their height for nearly nine hundred years without a roof. Killemlagh Church sits in a glen between two mountains on the western edge of Ireland, with the Atlantic a short walk away and the Skellig Islands floating on the horizon when the weather lets you see them. The name in Irish is Cill Imleach - church on marginal land, church on the border. It is one of those Irish place names that says exactly what it means. This is the edge.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/w/killemlagh-church-wp/gc0w-killemlagh-church-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Killemlagh Church: Where Saint Finnian Came In https://qualla.com/killemlagh-church/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. Before the Romanesque builders raised the present church in the late twelfth century, this site is said to have held a monastery founded by Finnian of Clonard - one of the great figures of early Irish Christianity, traditionally remembered as the teacher of the Twelve Apostles of...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/w/killemlagh-church-wp/gc0w-killemlagh-church-where-saint-finnian-came-in.mp3 0:06 2 full Killemlagh Church: Romanesque on the Edge of the World https://qualla.com/killemlagh-church/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. What stands now was built late in the twelfth century, in the Romanesque style that was the architectural lingua franca of medieval Christian Europe. The walls are made of local stone, with the door and window dressings cut from a distinctive green stone of the district. The wind...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/w/killemlagh-church-wp/gc0w-killemlagh-church-romanesque-on-the-edge-of-the-world.mp3 0:06 3 full Killemlagh Church: The Glen and the Graveyard https://qualla.com/killemlagh-church/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. The church sits in a glen between two mountains - Knocknaskereighta to the northeast and Canuig to the southwest - and the graveyard is locally called Glen graveyard, after the parish church built alongside the older Killemlagh ruin in the nineteenth century. That nineteenth-cent...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/w/killemlagh-church-wp/gc0w-killemlagh-church-the-glen-and-the-graveyard.mp3 0:06 4 full Killemlagh Church: The View https://qualla.com/killemlagh-church/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. From the churchyard the Atlantic opens out across St. Finian's Bay, with Puffin Island a short way offshore and the Skelligs further out. The Skellig Ring drive passes close by, connecting Portmagee to the north with Ballinskelligs to the south. Most visitors stop briefly, walk t...

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