For a description of this site I will quote Anthony Weir, who is eminently more qualified to describe this lovely place:
"A late Romanesque doorway has been inserted into the N wall of the abbey. Some of the capitals of the cloister also date from this period, but others - equally fine - are the work of Peter Foy, a local stonecarver employed around 1860 by Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness of Ashford Castle. There are three good transitional doorways in the E range. On an island in the clear Cong River is the small 'Monks' Fishing House'."
The doorway, mentioned first above, is wonderful as is the other carving here. The 'Fishing Hut' is a curio. It is built out onto the river like a bridge so that some water flows beneath it, where a trap door may have been used to hang nets down into the river. It is said that this building was 'connected' to the kitchens by a rope, upon the end of which was a bell. Through this the cook would know if there was fish for the menu.
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_A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
 Cormac's Chapel (Co. Tipperary) |  Aghowle Lower (Co. Wicklow) |  Killfane Church (Co. Kilkenny) |
 Dalkey Island (Co. Dublin) |  Kilvarnet (Co. Sligo) |  Fuerty (Co. Roscommon) |
