Archaeologists believe they have found the site of a 12th Century monastery near Downpatrick, County Down, that was destroyed ...

Agnetha Ní Máelshechlainn was a clever political negotiator who defended her monastery from expropriation during the English ...

The late pontiff’s funeral was broadcast around the world and into homes and places of worship across Ireland on Saturday – ...

A plot of land known as the “little green” in a Dublin housing estate is at the centre of a big row that has led to a ...

After much of Ireland converted to Christianity, its monasteries became centres of learning that produced and replicated academic and religious manuscripts, including the oldest surviving copy of ...

The bell was reputedly found by gravediggers at Bangor Abbey around 1780, and it is speculated that it had been hidden at the time of the Viking attacks on Irish monasteries. It was in private ...

Brian Sloan, from Queen's University Belfast who was helping to guide the team, said Erenagh's significance was in it being one of the first Cistercian monasteries in Ireland. "They took a ...

The bell was reputedly found by gravediggers at Bangor Abbey around 1780, and it is speculated that it had been hidden at the time of the Viking attacks on Irish monasteries. It was in private ...