Holy Sites in Ireland
5 sacred sites ranked by global significance

61
🌀Newgrange
Ancient/PaganIreland
A 5,000-year-old passage tomb older than Stonehenge, aligned to the winter solstice sunrise.

181
⛪Glendalough
ChristianityIreland
An early medieval monastic settlement in a glacial valley in the Wicklow Mountains.

234
⛪Rock of Cashel
ChristianityIreland
A spectacular hilltop complex of medieval buildings where St. Patrick baptized a king of Munster.

449
⛪Skellig Michael
ChristianityIreland
A remote island monastery off the Kerry coast where monks lived in stone beehive huts for 600 years.

557
⛪Clonmacnoise
ChristianityIreland
An early medieval monastic city on the River Shannon, once a great center of Irish learning.