Gallarus Oratory | |
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Séipéilín Ghallarais | |
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Location | Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry |
Country | Ireland |
Denomination | Pre-Reformation Catholic |
Specifications | |
Floor area | 14.4 m2 (155 sq ft) |
Materials | Old Red Sandstone |
Administration | |
Archdiocese | Cashel |
Diocese | Ardfert and Aghadoe |
Official name | Gallarus Oratory |
Reference no. | 66 |
The Gallarus Oratory (Irish: Séipéilín Ghallarais) 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.
The oratory overlooks the harbour at Ard na Caithne (formerly also called Smerwick) on the Dingle Peninsula.