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Engaging Ireland - Episode 20 - Top 10 Monastic and Spiritual Sites in Ireland
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:33:36
Publish Date: 2010-07-24 22:37:00
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Our Choices for Top 10 Monastic Sites in Ireland

 

In the next few episodes, we will be taking a look at our Top 10 lists for Ireland. Seems like everyone is putting together a “Top 10” list these days, so we thought we would share some of our top choices for Ireland. We have chosen our favorites from several categories; for example, we’ll list our top ten favorite towns/cities, our top ten. Why didn’t we limit ourselves to just one list of Top 10 Favorites? It’s too hard! And, while we admit we haven’t seen everything there is to see yet, these are our favorites thus far.

We begin the podcast series with our Top 10 Monastic/Spiritual Sites. Ireland is virtually littered with sites dating back thousands of years. These are the sites we are most drawn to again and again. For more information on any of the sites we mention, please click on the links below. NOTE: Many of the sites are part of Heritage Ireland (www.heritageireland.ie). If you purchase an OPW Heritage Card, you can enter these sites for no cost or reduced cost.

 

Skellig Michael

 

http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=757

http://www.heritageireland.ie/en/South-West/SkelligMichael/ 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skellig_Michael

 

Interesting web book entitled “The Forgotten Hermitage of Skellig Michael” by      Walter Horn, Jenny White Marshall, and Grellan D. Rourke:

 

http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft1d5nb0gb;brand=ucpress

 

Boat operators to Skellig Michael:

 

http://iguide.travel/Skellig_Michael/Overview/Boat_Operators

 

Loughcrew

 

http://www.knowth.com/loughcrew.htm

http://www.heritageireland.ie/en/MidlandsEastCoast/Loughcrew/

http://www.sacredsites.com/europe/ireland/loughcrew.html (Great Photos)

 

Loughcrew House, Gardens, and Adventure Course

http://www.loughcrew.com/

 

Rock of Cashel/Hore Abbey

 

http://www.cashel.ie/

http://www.heritageireland.ie/en/South-East/RockofCashel/

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hore_Abbey

Clonmacnoise

 

http://www.heritageireland.ie/en/MidlandsEastCoast/Clonmacnoise/

http://www.sacred-destinations.com/ireland/clonmacnoise

 

Kells (Co. Kilkenny)

 

Site with comprehensive information about Kells Priory

http://kells.frantzen.de/index.htm

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kells_Priory

 

Kilree Round Tower and High Cross (just up the road from Kells)

http://www.roundtowers.org/kilree/index.htm

 

Glendalough

 

http://www.heritageireland.ie/en/midlandseastcoast/GlendaloughVisitorCentre/

http://www.sacred-destinations.com/ireland/glendalough

 

Dublin

St. Patrick’s Cathedral

http://www.stpatrickscathedral.ie/index.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Patrick%27s_Cathedral,_Dublin

 

Christ Church Cathedral

http://cccdub.ie/

http://www.sacred-destinations.com/ireland/dublin-christ-church-cathedral.htm

 

Hill of Tara/Hill of Slane

 

http://www.heritageireland.ie/en/midlandseastcoast/HillofTara/

http://www.mythicalireland.com/ancientsites/tara/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_of_Tara

 

http://www.mythicalireland.com/ancientsites/slane/index.html

http://www.slane.com/hillofslane.htm

 

Quin Abbey

 

http://www.nd.edu/~ikuijt/Ireland/Sites/mdonnel2/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quin_Abbey

 

Brú na Bóinne

(Newgrange, Knowth, Howth)

 

http://www.heritageireland.ie/en/MidlandsEastCoast/BrunaBoinneVisitorCentreNewgrangeandKnowth/

 

http://www.knowth.com/bru-na-boinne.htm
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