Ballyvourney Monastic Site

The Ballyvourney site predates its association with Saint Gobnait by over a thousand years. Excavations in 1950 revealed approximately 137 forges beneath an early medieval enclosure, indicating the location functioned as an active metalworking centre producing iron and bronze objects during the first few centuries CE, long before Christian settlement. Saint Gobnait, a sixth-century abbess, est...