Teampall Bheanáin in Killeany, Ireland

On an island off Ireland’s western coast, perched high atop a hill, sits an 11th-century church not much larger than a car parking space. Teampall Bheanáin (Benan’s Temple) is a tiny oratory in the village of Killeany, on Inis Mór, the largest of the three Aran Islands in Galway Bay, Ireland. Measuring 15 feet by 11 feet (3.2 by 2.1 meters), it is considered by some to be the smallest church in Ireland. A Google search for the “smallest church in Ireland” will likely explain that Costello Chapel in County…

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