Holy Sites in Ireland

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

A remote island monastery off the Kerry coast where monks lived in stone beehive huts for 600 years.

A spectacular hilltop complex of medieval buildings where St. Patrick baptized a king of Munster.

A 5,000-year-old passage tomb older than Stonehenge, aligned to the winter solstice sunrise.

An early medieval monastic settlement in a glacial valley in the Wicklow Mountains.