What is recorded here
St. Kevins Bed is a narrow vertical cavity cut into the steep rocky cliff-face on the NW foothills of Slievecorragh. Tradition holds the saint slept inside this stone pocket, trusting the mountain more than a built chapel. The cave still stands as a small bed carved by weather, waiting for someone brave enough to lie back and listen for the echo of that first lonely prayer.
Situated within a steep, rocky cliff-face on the NW foothills of Slievecorragh. A natural vertical cavity in the cliff-face; St Kevin is traditionally said to have slept here. See cave (WI023-021----) at Lugduff (Glendalough), also known as 'St Kevin's Bed'.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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