Innisfallen Island

From the pier at Ross Castle near Killarney visitors can be rowed out to the quiet little island of Innisfallen, with the remains of a monastery (National Monument). Here at the beginning of the 13th C. were written the "Annals of Innisfallen," now in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. On the northeast side of the island is a small 12th C. church of red sandstone. Innisfallen still preserves the old native woodland of Ireland - rowan, ash, yew and holly.