Peter Stanford’s new book tells the history of Christianity in Britain and Ireland through twenty buildings and spaces. The second to be featured in our series is the monastery founded in the sixth ...

Walking inside its chapels’ tumbled walls and seeing birds nesting in its silent bell towers, it’s hard to believe that this was once one of Europe‘s great universities. Clonmacnoise was founded by St ...

A MONASTERY dating from the sixth century has been selected for nomination as a designated World Heritage Site -- but a proposed buffer zone around the site could mean that locals may no longer be ...

ENVIRONMENT Minister Martin Cullen is to write to UNESCO to seek the designation of monastic ruins at Clonmacnoise declared a World Heritage Site, he said yesterday. Launching a draft management plan ...