Things to See and Do

Saturday 24th June  – Irish Pilgrim Journey Aughagower to Croagh Patrick

      Saturday 24th June  – Irish Pilgrim Journey Aughagower to Croagh Patrick Walk will depart from the Abbey at 11am, registration from 10.15am. REGISTRATION FEE €15   Please use this quick online form to express your intention to do the walk, including whether you will require a bus back to the Abbey, as...

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Ballintubber Abbey on Churchtv.ie

Ballintubber Abbey is on Churchtv.ie   You can view Mass live at churchtv.ie/ballintubber. Check post on our home page or our Newsletter for times. Camera can also be switched on for weddings.  We thank Croan McCormack USA and Castlebar for donating this service in memory of his late father, Sargent Michael McCormack, Ballyglass & Garryduff.  Michael...

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Our Noticeboard

We thank the Family of Patrick & Margaret Vahey Gillen, USA for donating the Noticeboard on the grounds of the Abbey in their memory. Anyone wishing to have a notice on the board please forward it to the Ballintubber Abbey Office info@ballintubberabbey.ie.  

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Mass Times in our Parish For Easter 2023

  Carnacon:                                                                     Holy Thursday.  6th April 7.30pm.      Good Friday.  7th April 7.30pm.     Holy Saturday.  8th April 7.30pm.     ....

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Ballintubber Abbey Tour Guides win CIE Tours International Annual Awards of Excellence

Congratulations to our Tour Guides Muriel Barry, Pauline Dixon, Ann Marie Durcan and Lucai Murphy.  We are delighted to announce that we have again received an CIE Tours Award of Excellence 2022 again this year.  Our guides received an outstanding score of 93.3% in our Visitors Feedback.   This Award was also revived by out guides...

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Planning Your Wedding At Ballintubber Abbey

For wedding enquiries, please contact Teresa at info@ballintubberabbey.ie or on 09490 30934. 

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Reconstruction at Ballintubber Abbey

Ballintubber Abbey Restoration Project The Ballintubber Abbey Restoration Project seeks to further develop the structure of Ballintubber Abbey to create an interpretive centre to educate, engage and inspire visitors regarding the extraordinary historical, cultural and spiritual legacy of Ballintubber Abbey, the ‘Abbey that refused to die’. The currently derelict east wing of the abbey will...

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Ballintubber Abbey from the Sky – 2016

Take a very special tour of Ballintubber Abbey from the sky courtesy of Alan Clarke –  to mark 800 years of prayer and worship at this very historical location.   

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Baptismal Font

This Baptismal Font, which is used in the Abbey today, belongs to the old Monastery in the Graveyard and is over 1,000 years old. Therefore it was in use before the Reformation and indeed before the split in the Catholic Church dividing Rome and Constantinople. It is therefore a symbol of past Church Unity and...

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Mother and Child by Br Joseph McNally

This statue was cast by Brother Joseph McNally, a native of Ballintubber, who was a renowned sculptor and artist in Singapore. It was modelled on the statue of “Our Lady of Ballintubber” which was made by Professor Haerkner of the National College of Art, Dublin in 1973. Here Mary’s expression of courage and hope is...

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