Nendrum Monastery

The Nendrum Monastery (Irish Naondroim ) is a facility created by the Mochaoi Iroschottischen church on Mahee Iceland, the largest island in Strangford Lough, County Down, Northern Ireland. Mochaoi, said to have been converted by St. Patrick, died at the end of the 5th century. The name Nendrum goes on a drumlin, a glacial survey back.

Founded in the 6th and 7th centuries monasteries laid the foundations of Christianity in Ireland and were both proto- urban small centers. They attracted all kinds of craftsmen because they offered work. The first of 12 monks lived in monasteries consisted of huts made of wood and wattle or stone. The main building was the small church in the center. In the other huts, the kitchen, the dining room and sometimes a library was housed. The monks lived in sometimes called because of their shape beehive huts cells.

Prior to the excavation in the 1920s, the base of a round tower and the ruins of the church were all that could be seen from Nendrum. As the archaeologists dug deeper, they discovered a major monastery. Nendrum was in the midst of a pre-Christian Rath built, which was surrounded by an irregular concentric triple circle of walls. Within the Cashels were a school, workshops, the cemetery, the church, a round tower and a vertical sundial. One of the more significant findings was the bronze -coated iron " bell of Nendrum ". Outside here were a small tidal mill and a berth, probably for fishing boats.

Originally access to the island by a ford was only possible at low tide. Mahee Iceland and thus Nendrum is to reach, over a 19th-century dam. Nearby is Castle Espie, a zoo and wild birds reserve especially for geese.