The "Irish Monastery" at North Salem, New Hampshire

Abstract

win has tentatively put forward the suggestion, which in the hands of the press has assumed a more definite and sensational form, that the buildings were really an Irish monastery established by sailor monks, like those who settled in Iceland before the Norse occupation there in the latter part of the ninth century. Such monks in the New World might, he thinks, have been seeking solitude beyond the sea and peace from Viking raiders. Mr. Goodwin has with great kindness and generosity allowed the writer to examine the site and to use all his histori-