Glendalough

Last Saturday we went to the Wicklowe Mountains and Glendalough. At Glendalough they have a big visitor's center and the ruins of St. Kevin's monastery, which includes one of the more well-preserved Round Towers in Ireland.
Saint Kevin of Glendalough (c. 498–618) is a Christian saint who was the Abbot of Glendalough in County Wicklow, Ireland. "Kevin" is the English-language spelling of the Irish name Caoimhín (Coemgen in Old Irish, Latinized as Coemgenus).

His legend is not well known, as very little contemporaneous material exists. It maintains that he was descended from a royal line, given the name Coemgen, which means "fair-begotten", was baptized by Cronan, and educated by Petrock during that saint's sojourn in Ireland. He lived in solitude at Disert-Coemgen for seven years, sleeping on a dolmen (now known as "Saint Kevin's Bed") perched on a perilous precipice, that an angel had led him to, and later established a church for his own community at Glendalough. This monastery was to become the parent of several others. Eventually, Glendalough, with its seven churches, became one of the chief pilgrimage destinations in Ireland. His legend says that he lived to the age of 120.

One legend claims that one day when St. Kevin was at prayer, he stuck his hand out the window in the act of praying and a blackbird laid an egg on it. St. Kevin remained in the same position until the egg hatched.