St. Patrick' Cathedral rests on the site of the original church founded by St. Patrick. The new Cathedral was first Roman Catholic before it became protestant during the rule of Henry VIII. There are so few Anglicans in the city that the church is now little more than a museum which has to charge admission to remain solvent.At Trinity College I felt an almost overwhelming wish to be a student again.
We poked around Dublin for half-a-day before going out into the countryside to Glendalough to walk through the ruins of the old St. Kevin Monastery. The highlight of the city time was a visit to Trinity College Library where we spent some time with the incredible Book of Kells, which dates from the 8th Century. Margaret and I walked from the college to St. Patrick’s Cathedral and then all the way back to our hotel. Before America was even an idea, much of what can be found in and around Dublin was already old.The roof of the little chapel called St. Kevin's Kitchen has a roof made entirely of stone... It remains intact after twelve hundred years.There are no bad places for love... It thrives even here in the cemetery surrounded by twelve hundred year old monastery ruins.