saul church

At Saul, itself, a Celtic revival style Anglican church (with a round tower adjoining the chancel) on the site of an important twelth century monastery is where St Patrick's abbey is thought to have bee. In the churchyard is an early Christian mortuary house. Built in 1932 by the Church of Ireland to commemorate the fifteenth centenary of the saint's landfall, the church contains a thirteenth century font basin and a small, informative permanent exhibition.