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Killelton Church
On the lower slopes of Gearhane mountain, about 2.5 kilometres north-east of Camp, on the Dingle Peninsula overlooking Tralee Bay, are the ruins an ancient monastery known today in English as Killelton Church or Cill Elton in Irish. The monastery was founded by Saint Elton, a younger brother of Saint Fursa. Both men were leading figures in the Irish mission to convert the Anglo Saxons in England to Christianity in the early 7th century.
Today the site consists of a rectangular enclosure, the main feature of which is a small stone oratory which would originally have had a wooden roof. Excavations in 1983 indicate that this church was built on the site of an earlier wooden building, possibly the original church built by Saint Elton. The foundations of two other rectangular buildings also survive within the enclosure.
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