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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...