holy sites of ireland

Killeedy

County Limerick

St Ita (also Deidre) (501), virgin, founded the monastery here. Killeedy = ’Ita’s cell’. The church here grossly overgrown but somewhere her grave is here and a Holy Well.

OS 72 272 262 marked

see: Irish Monasticism


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