KYLEMORE ABBEY AND GARDENS
Benedictine Abbey at Kylemore, a former castle with magnificent Victorian ...Read more
ROSCOMMON ABBEY
Read moreMajestic ruins of an abbey founded in 1253 by Felim O'Conor, King of Connacht (left on the left of the entrance). In medieval times, Roscommon was a place of pilgrimage because the city would have held a piece of the Real Cross, and this abbey represented one of the most important Dominican centers in Ireland.
CONG ABBEY
Augustinian abbey to visit in Cong, founded in the 12thcentury by Turlough ...Read more
QUIN ABBEY
Read moreAlong a river, the mass ruins of the Franciscan monastery of Quin are well preserved, including the square tower. If one considers the important area of the church and the thickness of its walls, this abbey appears to have more served as a fortress than a place of worship: It was built on the foundations of a strong castle at the beginning of the th century. Despite many centuries of persecution, monks lived here until the 1820 th century, the last of them, Father Hogan, was buried in.
MONASTERY OF DYSART O'DEA
Read moreIt was in Dysart O'Dea that Saint Behind founded a monastic site in the th century. The church and the cross that can be seen nowadays, however, date back to the th or th centuries. Dysert O'Dea was also the site of a major battle in 1318 when O'Brien, Rois kings, took Over Clare de Bunratty, thus preventing the Conquest of Clare by Anglo-Norman.
In the field - which multiply multiply - stands the sobre cross of Dysart O'Dea. On the main face, a bishop holding his lacrosse is surmounted by a very special crucifixion: the face of Christ is perfectly circular, without any representation of hair; it is also dressed with a kind of long tunic tunicate from size; arms cross a straight line on the cross bar of the cross. On the other side, a series of geometric motifs and web, of which, at the bottom, some sort of variation on the relatively common diamond figure. The entire presence of the Church is concentrated in the portal, with the upper bow curved according to a @ face alignment. Beside the ruins of a large round tower.
SLIGO ABBEY
A historic abbey with a remarkable cloister and an impressive vault, dark ...Read more
KILMACDUAGH MONASTERY
Monastic site with a remarkable tower, the ruins of the cathedral and a ...Read more
IRELAND'S NATIONAL MARIAN SHRINE
Sanctuary famous for the apparition of the Virgin Mary on August 21, 1879, ...Read more
CHAPEL APPEARANCE
Read moreThis is the exact place where the Virgin Mary was born on the afternoon of August 21, 1879 with Saint Joseph and Saint John the evangelist.
BALLINTUBBER ABBEY
Read moreThis abbey was founded in the th century by King Cathal O'Conor. It is the only abbey in Ireland founded by a king and is still active.
ABBEY STRAIDE
Read moreIn the very advanced ruins of the abbey and in the middle of the graves, two altars still carry enigmatic sculptures. On the first, one can see a pietà surrounded by a woman (Marie-Madeleine?) and a man raising the forearm, palms facing us (receiving or showing the stigma).
On the other altar, a series of characters, on the left, perhaps three Christ King. One of them, the open cape on the wound of the right flank (or the Three Mages and Christ King). .
ERREW ABBEY
Read moreAlong the Lough Conn, in a picturesque landscape, you will find the ruins of this Augustinian abbey built in the twelfth century on the site of a church of the century.
AVERAGE ABBEY
Read more9 km from Ballina, on the road to Killala. If the quest for the ruins comes to an obsession, the abbey of Moyne is open to you. To access it, it is necessary to cross the courtyard of a farm and then a field. After a slalom between the cows, we admire the situation at the seaside of this important abbey of the th century, built by the Franciscan with a gray and austere stone…
ROSSERK FRIARY
Read more6,5 km from Ballina, on the road to Killala. On the edge of the Killala Bay estuary, the beautiful subtropical ruins of this th century Franciscan monastery have a few curiosities. In addition to its perfect conservation, the stylish porch is an elegant design. Inside the church, we will notice two angels to the instruments of Passion and a curious monk angel that seems to ring a bell, pulling on a rope that is no other than the tip of a arcade.
CATHEDRAL CLONFERT
Read moreTo get to Clonfert from Galway, take the N 6 towards Dublin. Clonfert is indicated in the vicinity of Ballinasloe (60 km from Galway). 563 th century cathedral, which is said to be built on the site of a monastery founded by St. Brendan in. It must be recognized that his porch deserves all the detours and returns to observe it at length. Undoubtedly, this is the most beautiful portal in Ireland. Not that it is monumental, on the contrary, it is its intimate character that keeps the attention. Its pillars, of all human proportions, are symmetrically sculpted with different motifs (web, escutcheons, crossed lines), as well as its arches (gueules wolves, or balls decorated with floral motifs). The most surprising of these is the triangular contour of five heads in niches surmounted, within this triangular form, of faces which arise in the middle of fifteen triangles (the geometric figure in the geometrical figure). There is an example of unique decoration in the Romanesque art.
KILCONNELL FRIARY
14th-century Franciscan monastery at Aughrim, probably Ireland's largest ...Read more
BURRISHOOLE ABBEY
Read moreThis th century Dominican abbey in ruins deserves a small hook, at least for the surrounding landscape. It is surrounded by the extension of a tiny coiled sea arm that looks like a river lined with algae…
TRINITARIAN ABBEY
Read moreThe only Trinitarien monastery in Ireland, it was founded in 1230.
FRANCISCAN ABBEY
Read moreThe Franciscan Abbey was founded in 1464 by Thomas FitzMorris, seventh Earl of Kildare. The ruins, lost in the middle of the golf course at Adare Manoir, are no longer known.