Clonmacnoise: Did you mean...?

The abbey of Clonmacnoise, Ireland.

Sketched reproduction of the 12th-century CE Clonmacnoise Crosier, from Ireland's Clonmacnoise monastery. The metalwork shows a clear Viking influence (even though the Irish Viking Age was already over by this time) in adopting elements of...

Flann Sinna (r. 879-916 CE) was a High King of Ireland from the Kingdom of Mide (Meath) and a member of the Clann Cholmain, a branch of the Southern Ui Neill dynasty. His name is pronounced “Flahn Shinna” and means “Flann of the Shannon”...

The Ardagh Chalice, one of the finest examples of Irish metalwork from the Middle Ages, was found in 1868 CE as part of a hoard at an Irish ringfort in Reerasta, near Ardagh, Co. Limerick. While the chalice is the only ecclesiastical artefact...

In early Medieval Europe, a prime subject of frightening tales-come-true were the famously marauding and pillaging Vikings, spilling out of their dragon-headed longships in a state of bloodlust, thirsting for gold. With their menacing presence...

Teampall Chiaráin on Inishmore, the largest of the Aran Islands, west off the coast of Galway, Ireland. The church was dedicated to St. Ciaran, who lived in the 6th century CE, spent seven years on Aran as a student of St. Enda and later...