Situated on a shelf above the S shore of the Upper Lake, surrounded by steep cliffs and only approachable by boat. The most westerly of the churches at Glendalough; partly reconstructed in the twelfth century. A small single-celled rectangular structure (dims. 7.75m x 4.34m) with a twin-light window in the E gable (similar to St Saviour's) and a doorway with inclined granite jambs at the W which originally had a flat lintel. Two fragmentary Latin crosses and several plain graveslabs are located near the church. To the W is an associated platform where evidence of wattle huts connected by paved paths was found in an excavation conducted by Henry in 1956-8 (Long 1994, 253). The huts were apparently destroyed by an avalanche of slabs and a wooden house resting on a base of stones was subsequently built which had finds dating from the late twelfth to the late fourteenth or fifteenth century. A charcoal layer was noted here and other charcoal-burning platforms have since been identified in this area. (Leask 1950, 9-10, 40; Healy 1972, 2, 6, 94-5)

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Spatial	Temple-na-Skellig, Glendalough
Protection Type	National Monuments in State Care
Start Date	1101
End Date	1200
Period Name	12th Century AD
Materials	Stone
Heritage Asset Type	Church