Now, I should explain that a " cloister" (cloister) is another word for a convent or a monastery, a religious building associated with the Catholic Church.
The Fermanagh lakelands with their roaming waterways and cloistered islands, the Mourne Mountains and their many walks and ways that slowly spill down to the sea.
The ground floor of the building round the quadrangle was occupied by a wide arcade or cloister, whose fanciful but strong architecture I could not enough admire.