Gallarus Castle and Oratory

Two miles/three km southwest of Gallarus Castle we come to one of the few castles to have been preserved on the Dingle Peninsula, Gallarus Castle (16th C.: National Monument), a four-story keep with some vaulted rooms. 0.75m/1km away is Gallarus Oratory (National Monument). Shaped like an upturned boat (Gallarus, "strange house"), it has walls over 3ft/1m thick, so carefully constructed, without the use of mortar, that the little chapel (measuring only 15x10ft/4.5x3m) is still watertight after 1,200 years.