Mount Melleray Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in the foothills of the Knockmealdown mountains, now houses only six monks and ...

One of the country's best known Cistercian abbeys, Mount Melleray in west Waterford, is to close this weekend after almost ...

The hope is they will come back here. All the monks want to come back. There is more than a chance that this will ...

Hundreds are flocking to Mount Melleray in Waterford as one of Ireland's most famous abbeys will close on Sunday after almost ...

It explores the everyday life of monastic individuals, the collective experience of religious communities ... and Adomnán’s Life of Columba created the understanding of the history of early Ireland ...

At the ruins of Kilmacduagh Monastery in Ireland’s County Galway, an unusual parch mark emerged outside a blocked doorway. Before that doorway was walled up, however, the passage, dating to the ...

Several pilgrims are expected to visit the site throughout the week, with the order saying that there have been many ...

Kildare Abbey lit up for the Herstory Light Festival. The Abbey of Kildare became one of the most prestigious monasteries in Ireland, and was famous throughout Christian Europe. It is timely that ...

castles rocked by bloody sieges and stunning monastic sites that once drew scholars from all over Europe. Welcome to Ireland's Ancient East, a vast playground of incredible history, compelling ...

The first recorded Viking raid on Ireland was in AD795. This raid, on the monastery at Rathlin Island off the Antrim coast, was just the beginning of many years of Viking attacks on Christian ...