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Christianity sacred sites in Ireland
Explore Christianity sacred sites in Ireland: pilgrimage places, living traditions, heritage landmarks, and sacred landscapes.
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Christianity sacred sites in Ireland help visitors move beyond broad directories into a more precise set of sacred places with shared geography, tradition, or site type.
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St. Brigid's Garden Well
Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland
Near the horse pastures of County Kildare, a natural spring rises from the earth in a garden tended by devotion. St....
St Gobnait's well (Ballyvourney)
Ballyvourney, County Cork, Ireland
An angel told Gobnait to travel until she found where nine white deer grazed together: there would be her place of resurrection....
Kildare
Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland
On a gentle hill in County Kildare stands a Gothic cathedral built over one of Ireland's oldest sacred sites....
Skellig Michael
County Kerry, Kenmare Municipal District, Ireland
Twelve kilometres off the coast of Kerry, a pyramidal rock rises 218 metres from the Atlantic Ocean....
Mount Brandon, County Kerry, Ireland
County Kerry, Kenmare Municipal District, 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...
Tobar Nalt
County Sligo, Sligo Municipal Borough District, Ireland
In a sheltered woodland south of Sligo town, a spring emerges from a cliff face into a stone basin that has held prayers for over five millennia....
Lough Dergh
County Donegal, Donegal Municipal District, Ireland
On a small island in a remote Donegal lake, pilgrims have been fasting, praying barefoot, and keeping vigil for over 1,500 years....
Glendalough
County Wicklow, The Municipal District of Wicklow, Ireland
Glendalough (; Irish: Gleann Dá Loch, meaning 'valley of two lakes') is a glacial valley in County Wicklow, Ireland, renowned for an Early Medieval monastic settlement...
Mt. Croach Patrick
County Mayo, Westport-Belmullet Municipal District, Ireland
Croagh Patrick rises 764 meters above Clew Bay in County Mayo, carrying unbroken sacred significance from the Neolithic period to the present day....
Kilmacduagh
County Galway, Loughrea Municipal District, 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
County Mayo, Claremorris-Swinford Municipal District, Ireland
Knock may refer to:
Lady's Island
County Wexford, The Borough District of Wexford, Ireland
Lady's Island is a pilgrimage site of sacred significance.
Rath Cruachan, Roscommon, Ireland
County Roscommon, Boyle Municipal District, Ireland
In the quiet farmland of County Roscommon, over 240 archaeological sites lie scattered across 6.5 square kilometres, most of them invisible to the untrained eye....
Slieve League, County Donegal, Ireland
County Donegal, Donegal Municipal District, Ireland
On the southwest coast of County Donegal, Slieve League rises 601 metres from the Atlantic Ocean in a near-vertical wall of Dalradian metamorphic rock....
Holy Cross Abbey
County Tipperary, The Municipal District of Thurles, Ireland
Holy Cross Abbey stands as one of Ireland's rarest achievements: a 12th-century Cistercian monastery fully restored to active parish worship....
Basilica of Our Lady of Knock, Queen of Ireland
County Mayo, Claremorris-Swinford Municipal District, 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....
Our Lady’s Island Monastery, Rosslare, Ireland
County Wexford, The Borough District of Wexford, Ireland
On the southern coast of County Wexford, a narrow causeway connects the mainland to a small peninsula between a brackish lake and the Irish Sea....
Ardmore
County Waterford, The Municipal District of Dungarvan — Lismore, Ireland
Ardmore comes from the Irish: Ard Mór or the Scottish Gaelic: Àird Mhòr meaning "great height" and may refer to:
Drogheda
County Louth, The Borough District of Drogheda, Ireland
Drogheda ( DRO-həd-ə, DRAW-də; Irish: Droichead Átha [ˈd̪ˠɾˠɛhəd̪ˠ ˈaːhə], meaning "bridge at the ford") is an industrial and port town in County Louth on the east coast...
Black Madonna of Dublin
Dublin, Leinster, 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....
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