A Sweet Link to Wales – St Aidan’s Bees One of the most beautiful stories about St Aidan relates to his love of bees – and bees’ love for him. While he was in Wales studying with St David one of his responsibilities was to care for the monastery’s bees. Bees...
Monument to Fr. John Murphy Born in Tincurry, Ferns in 1753, Fr. Murphy was the primary leader of the Rebels in the 1798 insurrection against British rule. It was in Ferns and its hinterland that the spark that was to become the conflagration of 1798 was lit. The...
St Aidan’s Monastery In 1990, on the site of the old Roman Catholic Church (built 1826), the Sisters of Adoration built a convent, a church of perpetual adoration and individual stone hermitages. With the exception of the altar, Tabernacle and Crosses, all the...
St. Mogue’s Well St. Aidan, first Christian Bishop of the Diocese of Ferns, was born in Co. Cavan in the year 560 A.D. Mogue, still a popular name in the area, is a derivative of the old Irish name ‘Maogh-Óg’, meaning the young Aodh. In time this became Aodhaghan and...
St Peter’s Church Until recently this church was thought to have been built circa the 16th century. However, it is now thought to date from the time of Murchadh O’Lynum circa 1055. The remains of this church are located at the Northern entrance to Ferns,...
