Some Other Building Architectures

Above: Picture of Cadoc of Wales

It is significant that Cadoc of Wales on his return from Ireland determined to build a church on the banks of the Neath. An Irish architect named Liguri so excelled all the others engaged in the erection of this church as to arouse their envy so that they conspired against him and put him to death. From the church the place took its name of Llanliguri.
In the sixth century the piety of the Irish monks knew no bounds.    Not content with living in solitude amid the rocks and heather,  many  of  them ventured out into  the desert  islands  and   there  erected  cells  and  oratories   and churches.    In this century were erected Teampoll Mholaise in Inismurray and Teampoll Bhreandain in Inisgluaire.    On Sceilg Mhichil off the coast of Kerry was erected another remarkable monastery.    The plateau occupied by its buildings is 180 feet in length and 80 to 100 feet in width.    They include the church of St. Michael, two smaller oratories, six beehive  cells,  many  stone  crosses,   five  leachta  or  burial places and two holy wells.    On one side they are protected by the towering rock, on the other by a caiseal running along the edge of the precipice.    It is   " astonishing   to conceive the courage and skill of the builders of this fine wall placed, as it is, on the very edge of the precipice at a vast height above the  sea,  with no possible  standing  ground outside from which the builder would have worked.    Yet the face is as perfect as that of Staigue fort, the interstices of the great stones filled in with little ones, and all fitted as compactly and with as marvellous firmness and skill. . .    There are still remaining six hundred steps cut by the monks in the cliff, which rises to 720 feet above the sea, the lower part of this ascent being now broken away."    Fionan Cam is regarded as the founder of this monastery.