Walking inside its chapels’ tumbled walls and seeing birds nesting in its silent bell towers, it’s hard to believe that this was once one of Europe‘s great universities. Clonmacnoise was founded by St ...

St. Ciaran (Kieran) of Clonmacnoise is known as “Ciaran the Younger”. He was born in about 512 (about 516 is also found) to the family of an itinerant carpenter and chariot-maker in the western Irish ...

Pottery fragments, right, from the settlement that were discovered at the site ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered an ancient monastic settlement of "huge national importance" during work for a church car ...

The remains of a medieval monastic settlement uncovered near Donegal town could be as significant as the ancient ruins of Clonmacnoise, a senior archaeologist has said. A boggy field beside the church ...

Peter Stanford’s new book tells the history of Christianity in Britain and Ireland through twenty buildings and spaces. The second to be featured in our series is the monastery founded in the sixth ...

A MONASTERY dating from the sixth century has been selected for nomination as a designated World Heritage Site -- but a proposed buffer zone around the site could mean that locals may no longer be ...

My writer friend Paul Kingsnorth tips me off to a marvelous project in rural Ireland: the establishment of an Orthodox women’s monastery by some Romanian nuns. The Orthodox Monastery of the ...

The number of annual visitors to a 6th century monastery in Co Offaly is approximately double what it was designed to handle, putting the site and its facilities under strain, the Office of Public ...

The last person allowed to be buried at the old cemetery at the historic monastic site of Clonmacnoise in Co Offaly has been laid to rest. Teresa Larkin, 98, from Moate in Co Westmeath was buried in ...

"SONS of the Irish and daughters of their under-kings were monks and virgins of Christ - I cannot count their number." Thus wrote St Patrick in his letter to Coroticus in the 5th century. By the end ...