Biography

Inis Ní is located in Bertraghboy Bay in Connemara

Connemara

Connemara is a district in the west of Ireland consisting of a broad peninsula between Killary Harbour and Kilkieran Bay in the west of County Galway.-Overview:...

, Ireland

Ireland

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, and contains the remains of a chapel

Chapel

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 and well

Water well

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dedicated to Mathias, the probable founder of the Christian settlement on the island. The chapel is surrounded by a rectangular graveyard, with an alter to the north-east containing an upright cross-inscribed slab.