With the transition to written culture, oral history was preserved in the monastic settlements.

On the island are remains of an early Irish monastic settlement.

Without her support, monastic settlements and the cathedral would likely have developed elsewhere.

It became part of a monastic settlement in 971.

From the middle of the 6th century hundreds of small monastic settlements were established around the county.

The majority of new churches and cathedrals were monastic settlements.

Further up is a well preserved monastic settlement with houses and a round building which might have been a storage room.

The earliest monastic settlements in Ireland emerged at the end of the 5th century.

One of the monastic settlements outside the city walls.

There is evidence of an early monastic settlement which still mostly remains a mystery.