Aghadoe Monastic Site & Parkavonear Castle

The townland of Parkavonear in the parish of Aghadoe is just a few kilometres from Killarney town. Parkavonear has two national monuments: an early medieval church site with the remains of a church and round tower and, nearby, a later 13th century Norman Castle. The place name Parkavonear is an Anglicisation of Paírc an Mhóinéir (“The field of the meadow"). An alternative spelling of the place...