Fore Abbey

A Benedictine monastery in a secluded valley, associated with seven traditional wonders such as water that flows uphill and a tree that will not burn. Saint Feichin founded an early monastic settlement here in the seventh century, and the surviving Norman-era church, cloister and towers date from later medieval rebuilding. An anchorite cell attached to the site was occupied into the seventeenth century. The grey ruins spread across boggy ground beneath wooded hills, linked by a trail marking each legendary wonder.