It’s been a busy few days on the far west coast of Ireland.  Let me catch you up on our visit to Clonmacnoise from a few days ago.  This was one of the  most important monastic settlemtents in Ireland, founded by St. Cyrian  in the 500’s.  Clonmacnoise flourished for hundreds of years as place of learning and Christian expansion.  The ruins were at the center of monastic village populated by a couple of thousand people.

The amazing thing to me was the vision of its founder.  The site is next to the river Shannon,  an important river in Ireland.  It was also on the ancient east-west highway.  It was hard to miss and touched the lives of countless people.  How do we do that today?

We’re on the Dingle on the far west coast of Ireland for one more day and then off to Scotland!