I t is said that the best things in the world are created out of love. These monuments from around the world stand as ...

abbot of Mount Melleray Abbey in west Waterford. The cleric is in reflective mood as the Cistercian abbey, near Cappoquin, closes this weekend after almost 200 years as a place of prayer and ...

A group of Cistercians, or Trappist monks, bought the land from the Bishop of Providence, Matthew Harkins, which Fr. John Mary Murphy wrote was “more as a donation than a sale” in 1899 ...

and New Mellifont Abbey (Louth) will relocate to join their brethren of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance at Mount Saint Joseph Abbey, Roscrea. There, they will form a new ...

Record's final Walk of the Week before Valentine's Day, we are journeying to the aptly named Sweetheart Abbey — which has a history as romantic as it is tragic.

The charity’s mounting financial pressures could lead to job cuts and site closures, sparking concern over the erasure of ...

A Viking Age hall, believed to be the largest of its kind ever discovered in Britain, has been uncovered during an archaeological dig at High Tarns in Cumbria.

A Viking Age hall, believed to be the largest of its kind ever discovered in Britain, has been uncovered during an archaeological dig at High ...