In the courtyard, the stone St Patrick's cross replicates the worn original in the Rockof Cashel's 15th-century Hall of the Vicars Choral, which was built to house the cathedral's male choristers.
He headed to another significant Celtic site, the RockofCashel, in the town ofCashel, County Tipperary, about 94km north of Cork, which then rivalled Tara as a centre of power in Ireland.