Founded in 548, the Clonmacnoise monastery was a bastion of Irish religion, literature, and art at a time when much of Europe languished in the Dark Ages. For almost 1,500 years it has looked out across the changing Callows landscape — the flood-plains of the River Shannon. In the spring the floods recede to reveal the fresh, damp meadowlands.
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