This directory lists times for churches of eight denominations, taken from what each church and each diocese publishes. Those sources do not use one vocabulary. This page explains the conventions that hold them together, and what we do and do not claim.
Where the times come from
Every time on this site comes from something the church or its diocese published: a parish website, a diocesan listing, a newsletter. Nothing is inferred and nothing is estimated.
Where the source’s wording carries information, we keep the wording rather than reducing it to a clock. “10:00 (as Gaeilge)”, “11:15 (Choral Eucharist)” and “18:00 (Vigil)” all say something a bare time does not, and that note is often what decides which service a person wants.
If a church has no times listed, we have not found any published. It does not mean there is no service there. Each church page carries the phone number, email and website we hold, and the town or county page beside it lists the neighbouring churches that do publish.
The vigil, and why it sits under Saturday
A Saturday evening Mass satisfies the Sunday obligation. That is what canon 1248 provides, and it is why almost every Catholic parish in Ireland celebrates one.
The awkward part is where to file it. We file it under Saturday, because Saturday is the day it is celebrated, and describe it as a vigil where the source does. Somebody looking for Sunday Mass will find the vigil listed immediately above the Sunday times on the same page, which is the honest arrangement: it is not a Sunday Mass, and it does count for Sunday.
The same convention covers the Saturday morning Mass many parishes also have. That is an ordinary weekday Mass falling on a Saturday rather than a vigil, and the time itself usually tells you which is which, since a vigil in Ireland is almost always between five and eight in the evening.
The words each denomination uses
The eight denominations here do not call the same thing by the same name, and we use each one’s own word rather than a single house term.
Catholic parishes have Mass: Sunday, vigil, weekday and holy day. Orthodox parishes have the Divine Liturgy, often with Orthros before it and Great Vespers the evening before. Church of Ireland parishes have services, which may be Holy Communion, the Eucharist, Morning Prayer or Evening Prayer, and in cathedrals Sung Eucharist and Choral Evensong; a parish with several churches often rotates which one has the Communion service on a given Sunday, and the notes in brackets are where that is recorded. Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist congregations have worship or a service, usually in the morning and in many congregations in the evening as well.
Pages are labelled accordingly. A page listing mostly Catholic churches says Mass times, a page listing mostly Protestant ones says church service times, and a Presbyterian congregation’s own page never says Mass.
Notes in brackets
A bracket after a time is the source’s own note, carried through. The common ones are:
- “(Vigil)”, the Saturday evening Mass counting for Sunday
- “(as Gaeilge)”, celebrated in Irish
- “(Polish)”, “(Romanian)”, “(Syro-Malabar)” and similar, a Mass in another language or rite, usually monthly
- “(Sung Eucharist)” and “(Choral Evensong)”, a sung service, generally in a cathedral or larger parish church
- “(1st Sunday)” and “(except July and August)”, meaning the service does not happen every week
That last kind is the one most worth reading before travelling.
What changes, and when
The times here are the ordinary weekly schedule. They are not correct for Christmas, for Holy Week, for holy days of obligation, or for the summer, when many parishes drop or move a Mass. We do not carry seasonal schedules, because a stale one is worse than none. The Christmas and Holy Week pages explain where each parish publishes those.
If you find a time here that is wrong, or you know one we are missing, tell us and we will fix it.
Times by county
- Antrim 279 of 463 with times
- Armagh 123 of 182 with times
- Carlow 32 of 55 with times
- Cavan 85 of 129 with times
- Clare 142 of 159 with times
- Cork 271 of 359 with times
- Derry 138 of 206 with times
- Donegal 139 of 199 with times
- Down 307 of 459 with times
- Dublin 270 of 366 with times
- Fermanagh 68 of 113 with times
- Galway 157 of 194 with times
- Kerry 102 of 121 with times
- Kildare 60 of 103 with times
- Kilkenny 79 of 100 with times
- Laois 52 of 90 with times
- Leitrim 51 of 75 with times
- Limerick 123 of 143 with times
- Longford 38 of 57 with times
- Louth 61 of 78 with times
- Mayo 128 of 147 with times
- Meath 70 of 118 with times
- Monaghan 67 of 93 with times
- Offaly 56 of 79 with times
- Roscommon 50 of 83 with times
- Sligo 53 of 85 with times
- Tipperary 130 of 169 with times
- Tyrone 163 of 241 with times
- Waterford 72 of 98 with times
- Westmeath 47 of 81 with times
- Wexford 99 of 149 with times
- Wicklow 67 of 105 with times
Questions
- Why does a Saturday evening Mass count as Sunday?
- Canon 1248 provides that the Sunday obligation is satisfied by a Mass celebrated on the evening of the day before. That is what a vigil is, and it is why parishes list one. On this site a vigil is filed under Saturday, the day it is actually celebrated, and described as a vigil.
- Why do some churches have no times listed?
- Because we have not found any published anywhere we can cite. We list only times a church or its diocese has published, so a gap means we do not know, rather than that there is no service. The church page carries its phone number and website.
- What does 'as Gaeilge' mean beside a time?
- That the Mass is celebrated in Irish. Where a parish notes a language, a choir or a particular form beside a time, we keep the note rather than reducing it to a clock, because it changes which service a person wants.