The monastic ruins at Clonmacnoise, Co Offaly, have been recommended for designation as a UNESCO World Heritage site by the Minister for the Environment, Mr Cullen. Ireland's other world heritage ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was an absolutely perfect day for traveling. The moon still continued its waning phase, the clouds were a soft orange/peach bunches of fluff in the sky, and we were well rested. Coffee got us off ...

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 ...