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

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 ...

The closure comes almost two centuries after the abbey was founded in the 1830s by an Irish-born monk who returned to Ireland ...

Several pilgrims are expected to visit the site throughout the week, with the order saying that there have been many enquiries regarding times of Masses and other ceremonies ...

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 ...

In 2023, St. Brigid's Day became Ireland's newest bank holiday - it's observed on the first Monday after February 1, which in 2025, is February 3. While St. Patrick is celebrated around the world ...

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 ...

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 ...