Church Island (Lough Currane)

Church Island is a medieval Christian monastery and National Monument located in Lough Currane, Ireland.

[7] The monastery on Lough Currane claims its foundation from Saint Fionán Cam (6th century AD).

[8][9] The oak church (dairthech) was replaced in the 12th century by a Romanesque stone building, some of which survives.

[10] There is a stone church, a clochán (perhaps a hospitium) and two further cells for other monks.

[11][12] The church contains a relief carving of a musician playing a lyre.

Watercolour, 1858
Carving of a musical instrument ( cruit or fiddle , 11th century)
Finan of Lindisfarne 's cell on Church Island, photographed in 1865.
A carved cross on Church Island