Yesterday I took the short trip of around 5 miles or less than 10 minutes with our youngest son to the ancient Penmon Priory but it took us back hundreds of years.                                                                                                              It was established on the coast of Anglesey and was built on the site of St Seriol who lived there as early as the 6th Century A.D.  A thousand years later the Monks of the Priory constructed a Dovecot to house pigeons that  provided them with fresh eggs and pigeon meat …

 

Looking from the Priory down to the Dovecot…in the background is the Menai Straights and the Mountains of Snowdonia…

Another view at the rear of the Dovecot…

An inside view of the Dovecot that could house over one thousand pairs of breeding birds…

Another view inside the Dovecot ..young Sion Patrick likes climbing as much as pigeons…

A short walk of around 500 meters took us to the coast of Anglesey looking out to Puffin Island with the Penmon Lighthouse in the foreground…this is usually the last view of land the Irish pigeons have before heading out into the Irish Sea…