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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vegetation history derived from pollen analysis of an Irish midlands raised bog is presented. The profile has been radiocarbon dated and covers the period from late Neolithic to early Christian times ...

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