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Christianity sacred sites in Ireland
Explore 16 sacred sites in Ireland connected to Christianity. Compare locations on the map and find respectful cultural and visiting guidance.
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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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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...
Our Lady’s Island Monastery, Rosslare, Ireland
County Wexford, 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....
Skellig Michael
County Kerry, Kerry, Ireland
Twelve kilometres off the coast of Kerry, a pyramidal rock rises 218 metres from the Atlantic Ocean....
Slieve League, County Donegal, Ireland
County Donegal, Donegal, 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....
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....
St Kevin's Church, Hollywood
Hollywood, Wicklow, Ireland
St Kevin's Church in Hollywood, County Wicklow — a disused 17th-century church standing on a medieval ecclesiastical site — marks the traditional starting point of the...
St. Brigid's Cathedral, Kildare
Kildare, Kildare, Ireland
On a gentle hill in County Kildare stands a Gothic cathedral built over one of Ireland's oldest sacred sites....
St. Brigid's Garden Well
Kildare, Kildare, Ireland
Near the horse pastures of County Kildare, a natural spring rises from the earth in a garden tended by devotion. St....
Tobar Nalt
County Sligo, Sligo, 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....
Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church
Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
The church on Whitefriar Street provides the current home and liturgical setting for Our Lady of Dublin....
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