The Connacht county of Mayo is now mostly associated ... fasting during his years as a missionary in Ireland. The mountain has been a place of pilgrimage for 5,000 years. Originally pilgrimage ...

Ireland's most famous pilgrimage sites provide ... at the mountain’s base. Another county Mayo favorite, Knock is internationally renowned as a place of prayer and pilgrimage.

Ireland's Curious Places by author, academic and architect Michael Fewer is a compilation of the quirkiest places across the ...

About 30,000 people are taking part in the annual 1,500-year-old pilgrimage to the top of Ireland's holiest mountain. The annual climb up Croagh Patrick in County Mayo commemorates St Patrick's ascent ...

Thirteen people have been injured during this year's annual pilgrimage on Croagh Patrick in County Mayo. Among them was ... teams from across the Republic of Ireland, the Police Service of ...