There are a number of impressive monastic ruins; Welsh medieval churches are nearly all relatively modest, including the cathedrals.
So we took him up to Fountains Abbey (one of Britain's most famous monastic ruins).
His childhood was divided between the monastic ruins of Tipperary and the skyscrapers of Manhattan.
It's a glamorously restored colonial house with its own museum and a beautiful garden full of monastic ruins and temperamental scarlet macaws.
Glendalough, or the Glen of two Lakes, is one of the most important sites of monastic ruins in Ireland.
On this Wicklow day tour you'll explore ancient monastic ruins at.
Has he ever painted any of the great monastic ruins?
Parts of the existing rectory have monastic ruins built into the foundation and some inner walls, speculated to be evidence of an earlier building on this site.
What remains of Manchán's foundation at Lemanaghan are monastic ruins and a graveyard.
In 1569/70 Sir Henry Stanley, Lord Strange, constructed a house from the monastic ruins.