Category:Aghowle Monastery

English: The monastery at Aghowle was founded by Saint Finnian of Clonard in the 6th century. The surviving church in the Irish Romanesque style is from the early 12th century. See Gwynn and Hadcock, Medieval Religious Houses Ireland, p. 28; Harold G. Leask, Irish Churches and Monastic Buildings, Volume One, p. 85; Grogan and Kilfeather, Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow, p. 115.