Round towers were designed primarily as bell-towers and were attached to some of the most prestigious churches in Ireland ...

On the calm waters of Lough Derg in Ireland, the small Station Island is home to one of the toughest pilgrimages in the world ...

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 ...

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 ...

A PUBLIC lecture, entitled "Sacred Space and Public Access: The Durrow Abbey Controversy of 1914", will be given in Tullamore ...

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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 ...

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 ...