The Gallarus Oratory is a chapel on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland. It has been presented variously as an early-Christian stone church by antiquary Charles Smith, in 1756; a 12th-century Romanesque church by archaeologist Peter Harbison in 1970; a shelter for pilgrims by the same in 1994. The local tradition prevalent at the time of Charles Smith attributed it to one Griffith More, being a funerary chapel built by him or his family at their burial place.
Gallarus Oratory
Full view
Three-quarter view
Roof with sag (back view)
The Dingle Peninsula is the northernmost of the major peninsulas in County Kerry. It ends beyond the town of Dingle at Dunmore Head, the westernmost point of Ireland.
Dunmore Head, the westernmost point on the Dingle Peninsula
NASA satellite image of the Dingle Peninsula
The Ranga, here pictured in 1986
A panoramic view of the western end of the Dingle Peninsula.