From sacred peaks to legendary cliffs, here’s your ultimate bucket list of Ireland’s most awe-inspiring landscapes. Whether ...

We have a very, very big outreach here in terms of confessions,” Father Richard Gibbons, who has led the shrine for more than ...

Croagh Patrick (also known as ‘the Reek’) is a 764m mountain on the west coast of Ireland: a great pyramid of rock which rises alone, its grandeur unobstructed by neighbouring peaks.

Christians adopted sacred sites such as Croagh Patrick and this is especially noteworthy as we arrive at the time of year when everyone can be Irish on St. Patrick’s Day just a few days from now.

Climbing St. Patrick's mountain in IrelandClimbers on the slopes of Croagh Patrick in County Mayo, Ireland. Every year, pilgrims and tourists from around the world climb the holy mountain where St ...

Croagh Patrick in County Mayo is an important site of pilgrimage where St Patrick is believed to have fasted during the 5th-century. Croagh Patrick, which overlooks Clew Bay, the Wild Atlantic Way ...

A twenty-minute climb brings you to Mám Éan, the “passage of the birds”, now overlooked by a gaunt statute of St Patrick and ...

Up to 40,000 people climb Croagh Patrick every year - a 760m-high mountain in the far west of Ireland - as part of a pilgrimage to honour the country's patron saint.

1 of 5 | Hikers get ready to push to the top of Croagh Patrick, where the 5th-century St. Patrick is said to have fasted, wrestled with demons and banished snakes from Ireland. (Helen O’Neill/AP) ...

In 1997, my students and I traveled to Croagh Patrick, a mountain in County Mayo, as part of a study abroad program course on Irish literature I was teaching for the University of Dayton. I wanted ...