1198 witnessed Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair (Rory O'Connor), Ireland's last High King, spending his final fifteen years at Cong Abbey after his abdication, transforming the Royal Augustine monastery on the Galway-Mayo border into the spiritual epicenter of a fading Gaelic kingship wh…
Cong is a small place in County Galway. We're still writing the proper hub for it — pubs, food, walks, the things to skip — and it'll appear here when it does.