RTÉ Ireland10d
Round Towers of Ireland - who built them and what were they for?
Round towers were designed primarily as bell-towers and were attached to some of the most prestigious churches in Ireland ...
National Catholic Register6d
Pilgrimage to St. Patrick’s Purgatory
On the calm waters of Lough Derg in Ireland, the small Station Island is home to one of the toughest pilgrimages in the world ...
Western Michigan University8y
Monastic Life and Venerated Spaces
It explores the everyday life of monastic individuals, the collective experience of ... and Adomnán’s Life of Columba created the understanding of the history of early Ireland that has endured to this ...
Irish Central21d
Ireland's islands - scenic havens around the Irish coastline
An early Christian monastic site, now uninhabited, Ireland’s Eye lies just off the Dublin coastline. St. Nessan founded a monastery here in the sixth century and today the remains of an eighth ...
Offaly Independent5d
1914 controversy over public access to Durrow Abbey focus of local history talk
A lecture on a 111-year-old controversy over public access to Durrow Abbey will be presented at Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society next week. The lecture, Sacred Space and Public Access: The ...
Offaly Express5d
Important lecture in Offaly on public access to ancient monastic site
A PUBLIC lecture, entitled "Sacred Space and Public Access: The Durrow Abbey Controversy of 1914", will be given in Tullamore ...
BBC4y
Did the Vikings and monks get along?
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 ...