What is a Pilgrimage?
A pilgrimage can be defined as a journey, or a search for moral or spiritual significance.
To go on a pilgrimage is to go on a ritual journey with a hallowed purpose.
Places of Pilgrimage/Places of Significance in Ireland
| Clonmacnoise | Co. Offaly | www.sacred-destinations.com/ireland/clonmacnoise |
| Corrymeela Community | Belfast | www.corrymeela.org |
| Croagh Patrick | Co. Mayo | www.croagh-patrick.com |
| Downpatrick | Co. Down | www.downcathedral.org |
| Faughart | Armagh | www.brigidoffaughart.ie |
| Glendalough Monastic City | Co. Wicklow | www.glendaloughhermitage.ie |
| Knock | Co. Mayo | www.knockshrine.ie |
| Lough Derg – St. Patrick’s Purgatory | Lough Derg, Co. Donegal | www.loughderg.org |
| Monasterboice Celtic Crosses | Co. Louth | www.sacred-destinations.com/ireland/monasterboice |
| Newgrange | Co. Meath | www.newgrange.com |
| Our Lady’s Island | Co. Wexford | |
| The Giant’s Causeway | Antrim | www.giantscausewayofficialguide.com |
| The Aran Islands | Co. Galway | www.aranislands.ie |
