Robert M Chapple, Archaeologist

[** If you like this post, please make a donation to the IR&DD project using the secure button at the right. If you think it is interesting or useful, please re-share via Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc. To help keep the site in operation, please use the amazon search portal at the right - each purchase earns a small amount of advertising revenue **] < Part I | PartII | Additional Photographs Approach to the site from the jetty Welcome to this, the concluding part of the Chapple family’s 2013 summer adventures in Fermanagh. One weekend in August we were pondering what to do and where to go. My lovely and very patient wife remarked that I have a tendency, when caring for our children on my own, to take them to Fermanagh for days out. I suggested that, if she felt left out, I’d happily take the lot of us to Fermanagh … but that I was thinking of completing our trio of island adventures. She enquired as to the island I had in mind and when I said ‘Devenish’ she was ...

[** If you like this post, please make a donation to the IR&DD project using the secure button at the right. If you think it is interesting or useful, please re-share via Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc. To help keep the site in operation, please use the amazon search portal at the right - each purchase earns a small amount of advertising revenue **] < Part I | Part II | Part III To accompany the less-than-stellar photos taken on an iPhone at Devenish, I'm including a complimentary collection of equally impressive scanned slides from a visit with the   Historic Monuments Council  in  2000. Overview of  An Teampull Mór Overview of  ‘St Molaise's House’ and the Round Tower Hypothetical reconstructions of 'St Molaise's House' and earlier wooden church. Taken from DOE information board. Detail of one of the Romanesque decorated antae on  ‘St Molaise's House’ Detail of one of the Romanesque decorated antae on  ‘St Molais...