On this site is St Brigid's Abbey, This is a 12th century church built on the same sight as her community, the original would have been made of wood beams and rotted by now. Outside is a Round Tower built to protect from Viking raids and a square pit thought to be Brigid's fire. Her original burial spot before being dug up and moved in the 13th century supposedly to Armagh, but later to Portugal and beyond. As she was important to sailors. The nuns kept a fire going for some 800 years after her death on this pit location.
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