Ireland

Ardfert Cathedral

Ardfert, Kerry, Ireland

Ardfert Cathedral is a nationally or regionally important monastic place in Republic of Ireland. Ardfert Cathedral is interpreted here through Christian monastic tradition....

Ballintubber Abbey

County Mayo, Mayo, Ireland

Ballintubber Abbey belongs among the significant monastic places of Republic of Ireland. The sacred frame at Ballintubber Abbey comes from Christian monastic tradition....

Basilica of Our Lady of Knock, Queen of Ireland

County Mayo, Mayo, Ireland

On a wet evening in 1879, fifteen people watched an apparition appear at the gable of a small parish church in the west of Ireland. No words were spoken....

Bective Abbey

County Meath, Meath, Ireland

Bective Abbey belongs among the significant monastic places of Republic of Ireland. The sacred frame at Bective Abbey comes from Christian monastic tradition....

Black Madonna of Dublin

Inside Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

In Dublin's Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church, a life-sized oak Madonna stands near the high altar, her original gold and blue paint stripped away by centuries....

Blarney Stone

Cork, County Cork, Ireland

At the top of a fifteenth-century castle tower in County Cork, visitors lie on their back, lean over the edge of the parapet, and kiss the underside of a limestone block....

Boyle Abbey

Boyle, Roscommon, Ireland

Boyle Abbey is a nationally or regionally important monastic place in Republic of Ireland. Boyle Abbey is interpreted here through Christian monastic tradition....

Brownshill Dolmen

Carlow, Carlow, Ireland

Brownshill Dolmen belongs among the significant prehistoric places of Republic of Ireland....

Brú na Bóinne

Drogheda, Meath, Ireland

Brú na Bóinne stands in Republic of Ireland as a major prehistoric site. At Brú na Bóinne, Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions provides the public sacred context....

Carrowkeel

County Sligo, Sligo, Ireland

On the Bricklieve Mountains in County Sligo, fourteen cairns built over five thousand years ago crown the ridgeline like stone sentinels....

Carrowmore

County Sligo, Sligo, Ireland

On the Coolera Peninsula near Sligo, thirty surviving megalithic monuments mark what was once a cemetery of sixty structures, among the oldest in Ireland....

Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin

Dublin 8, County Dublin, Ireland

Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin stands in Republic of Ireland as a major pilgrimage site....

Clonfert Cathedral

County Galway, County Galway, Ireland

Clonfert Cathedral belongs among the significant monastic places of Republic of Ireland. The sacred frame at Clonfert Cathedral comes from Christian monastic tradition....

Cong Abbey

Cong, Mayo, Ireland

Cong Abbey is a nationally or regionally important monastic place in Republic of Ireland. Cong Abbey is interpreted here through Christian monastic tradition....

Croagh Patrick

Murrisk, County Mayo, Ireland

Croagh Patrick is a sacred mountain, penitential route, and ceremonial pilgrimage landscape in Murrisk, Ireland....

Dowth

County Meath, Meath, Ireland

Dowth is a nationally or regionally important prehistoric place in Republic of Ireland. Dowth is interpreted here through Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions....

Drombeg Stone Circle, Glandore, Ireland

County Cork, County Cork, Ireland

On a gentle rise above the West Cork coast, seventeen stones form one of the finest examples of Ireland's distinctive Cork-Kerry axial stone circles....

Dublin Hebrew Congregation

Dublin 6W, County Dublin, Ireland

Dublin Hebrew Congregation is a nationally or regionally important multi-faith place in Republic of Ireland. Dublin Hebrew Congregation is interpreted here through Judaism....

Dún Aonghasa

County Galway, County Galway, Ireland

Dún Aonghasa stands in Republic of Ireland as a major prehistoric site. At Dún Aonghasa, Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions provides the public sacred context....

Ennis Friary

Ennis, Clare, Ireland

Ennis Friary stands in Republic of Ireland as a major monastic site. At Ennis Friary, Christian monastic tradition provides the public sacred context....

Fore Abbey

Fore, Westmeath, Ireland

Fore Abbey stands in Republic of Ireland as a major monastic site. At Fore Abbey, Christian monastic tradition provides the public sacred context....

Glendalough

County Wicklow, Wicklow, Ireland

Glendalough is a glacial valley in County Wicklow holding the ruins of an early medieval monastery founded by St Kevin around 600 AD....

Gougane Barra

Gougane Barra, County Cork, Ireland

Gougane Barra belongs among the significant monastic places of Republic of Ireland. The sacred frame at Gougane Barra comes from Christian monastic tradition....

Grange stone circle

Lough Gur, County Limerick, Ireland

Grange stone circle is a nationally or regionally important prehistoric place in Republic of Ireland....

Hill of Tara

County Meath, Meath, Ireland

For over five thousand years, the Hill of Tara has stood as the axis mundi of Ireland, the place where earthly power touched the divine....

Hill of Uisnech

Loughnavalley, Westmeath, Ireland

On a gentle hill in the heart of the Irish midlands, five provinces once met at a massive limestone boulder....

Hill of Ward

County Meath, Meath, Ireland

Hill of Ward belongs among the significant prehistoric places of Republic of Ireland....

Holy Cross Abbey

County Tipperary, Tipperary, Ireland

Holy Cross Abbey stands as one of Ireland's rarest achievements: a 12th-century Cistercian monastery fully restored to active parish worship....

Inis Cealtra

County Clare, Clare, Ireland

Inis Cealtra stands in Republic of Ireland as a major monastic site. At Inis Cealtra, Christian monastic tradition provides the public sacred context....

Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland

Dublin 14, County Dublin, Ireland

Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland is a nationally or regionally important multi-faith place in Republic of Ireland....

Jerpoint Abbey

Thomastown, Kilkenny, Ireland

Jerpoint Abbey belongs among the significant monastic places of Republic of Ireland. The sacred frame at Jerpoint Abbey comes from Christian monastic tradition....

Kenmare Stone Circle, Kenmare, Ireland

Kenmare, Kerry, Ireland

Fifteen stones form an egg-shaped ring in the heart of Kenmare town, enclosing a massive boulder-burial with a seven-ton capstone....

Kilclooney Dolmen, Ardara, Ireland

County Donegal, Donegal, Ireland

On a working farm near Ardara in County Donegal, two Neolithic portal tombs stand within sight of each other, the larger crowned by a massive capstone that has balanced on...

Kilmacduagh

County Galway, County Galway, Ireland

Kilmacduagh is a sprawling monastic settlement in south County Galway, founded around 610 AD by St Colman mac Duagh after seven years of hermitage in the Burren....

Knock Shrine

Knock, Mayo, Ireland

Knock Shrine belongs among the significant pilgrimage places of Republic of Ireland. The sacred frame at Knock Shrine comes from Christian pilgrimage tradition....

Knocknarea megalthic site, Sligo, Ireland

County Sligo, Sligo, Ireland

Knocknarea is a flat-topped mountain on the Sligo coast crowned by one of Ireland's largest unexcavated Neolithic cairns, traditionally identified as the burial place of...

Knockroe passage mound, Ireland

County Kilkenny, Kilkenny, Ireland

Knockroe is the only known passage tomb in Europe designed to capture both sunrise and sunset on the winter solstice....

Knowth

Drogheda, Meath, Ireland

Knowth belongs among the significant prehistoric places of Republic of Ireland. The sacred frame at Knowth comes from Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions....

Kylemore Abbey

County Galway, County Galway, Ireland

Kylemore Abbey is a nationally or regionally important monastic place in Republic of Ireland. Kylemore Abbey is interpreted here through Christian monastic tradition....

Labbacallee wedge tomb

Glanworth, County Cork, Ireland

Labbacallee wedge tomb is a nationally or regionally important prehistoric place in Republic of Ireland....

Lough Dergh

County Donegal, Donegal, Ireland

On a small island in a remote Donegal lake, pilgrims have been fasting, praying barefoot, and keeping vigil for over 1,500 years....

Loughcrew

County Meath, Meath, Ireland

Loughcrew is one of Europe's largest concentrations of Neolithic passage tombs, spread across four hilltops named for the Cailleach, the divine hag of Irish mythology....

Mellifont Abbey

Tullyallen Village, Louth, Ireland

Mellifont Abbey stands in Republic of Ireland as a major monastic site. At Mellifont Abbey, Christian monastic tradition provides the public sacred context....

Mount Brandon, County Kerry, Ireland

County Kerry, Kerry, Ireland

Mount Brandon rises 952 meters above the Dingle Peninsula, carrying an unbroken pilgrimage tradition from the pre-Christian Lughnasa harvest festival through the age of...

Mount Melleray Abbey

County Waterford, County Waterford, Ireland

Mount Melleray Abbey stands in Republic of Ireland as a major monastic site. At Mount Melleray Abbey, Christian monastic tradition provides the public sacred context....

Moyne Abbey

County Mayo, Mayo, Ireland

Moyne Abbey is a nationally or regionally important monastic place in Republic of Ireland. Moyne Abbey is interpreted here through Christian monastic tradition....

Muckross Abbey

County Kerry, Kerry, Ireland

Muckross Abbey belongs among the significant monastic places of Republic of Ireland. The sacred frame at Muckross Abbey comes from Christian monastic tradition....

Newgrange

Donore, Meath, Ireland

Five thousand years ago, people moved thirty-five hundred tons of stone to build a monument aligned with a single moment of sunrise on the shortest day of the year....