Insights

The great stone cross at Monasterboice, County Louth, is often treated as though it were a grave monument. Its richly carved biblical scenes, weathered ring…

In the misted churchyards of Ireland, few monuments are as instantly recognisable as the Celtic cross. Its ringed silhouette, softened by lichen and framed by…

The village of St. Mullins sits at a quiet bend of the River Barrow where it meets a smaller tributary in the shadow of the Blackstairs Mountains. Tucked…

On a low rise above the River Shannon, where the call of curlews drifts across bog cotton in summer, the monastic enclosure of Clonmacnoise holds one of…

Walking through an old Irish cemetery, you will eventually spot a headstone carved with a skull resting on crossed thigh bones. For many visitors, the image…

East of the market town of Tulla in County Clare, a long limestone ridge rises gently out of the drumlin farmland. From the south-west, at the right hour, its…