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St Doolaghs Church
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I am not sure if this is the correct category for this photo. I thought about Street, Landscape and Catch All but decided on here.
This is St Doolaghs Church in Balgriffin, Co Dublin. I have passed this beautiful building hundreds if not thousands of times over the course of my life and pass it every Thursday on the way to and home from the camera club. And everytime I see it I think the same thing. “I really must photograph that church sometime”
Well last night I finally did.
The site dates back to the 7th Century and parts of the current building date to the 12th Century, although there is no Romanesque decoration. The church has been greatly extended over the years, but the oldest part is one of the few stone-roofed churches left in Ireland.
Features of the church include a hermit’s cell, a lepers’ window (where ill people could receive communion) and a penitential cell.
The church is usually locked, but they do have Open Days throughout the summer and one in May.
A very nice image. I love the angle making the eye travel along the wall to the church.
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