Fenit bay, the opening to the Atlantic beyond the Maharee Islands, gave Brendan the dream of finding his place with God beyond the far horizon to the West and North.  Brendan founded and was associated with monasteries from Ardfert to Clonfert on the Shannon and all along the west coasts of Ireland and Scotland.  The dream led him to Wales, to Brittany, to the Faeroes, to Iceland and probably to Newfoundland, and always back to the Shannon and Tralee Bay.
 

This is the artist's, Tighe O'Donoghue, impression of a fitting mounument to Brendan.  This statue will be placed, looking out to sea, on the summit of Samphire Island, where it will speak of the dream that led Brendan, and many other local people, to find God and new lands where none had gone before.

The sculpture, in bronze, with plinth, will be 16.5 feet high, situated on the top of Samphire rock at the entrance of Fenit harbour and will be visible from Tralee to Mount Brandon.  We know it will be an internationally acclaimed sculpture and a fitting tribute and that it will blend in and enhance the 10 to 12 mountains of over 2,000 feet in the vicinity.

The location is appropriate with Brendan present in the place where he and his dream was born, with the ever-present sea in all its moods and winds from gentle breeze to violent storm, reminding us that one life lived gloriously can inspire us all who are buffeted by life's stormy seas.