High Crosses High Crosses are a unique feature of early Irish monasteries. In the grounds around the Cathedral are three plain granite crosses, a smaller stone cross and a cross slab. The heads of four High Crosses, dating to the 8th or 9th century, show the...
Ruins of a Chapter House Thought to have been the ruins of the original medieval cathedral until recent years when investigations indicated that it is possibly a chapter house of the cathedral’s canons. Located to the east of the present Cathedral, the ruins consist...
Service Times Please note the following is a listing of normal service times, however these have been suspended until further notice due to COVID-19 restrictions. 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th Sundays at 10.15 am 3rd Sunday: 10.30 am (Family Service) Wednesday: Holy Communion...
St. Mary’s Augustinian Abbey In c1160, Diarmait MacMurrough founded an Abbey in Ferns ‘for the health of my soul and my ancestors and successors’. Its foundation charter included an entitlement to a ‘portion of all beer brewed in Ferns’. Through the winter of 1167/8...
Cathedral Graveyard Originally a 6th century habitation, the old cemetery located adjacent to St. Edan’s Cathedral, contains the remains of some extremely important historical figures, most famous of these being Diarmuid MacMurrough, King of Leinster. Also interred...
