New Ross Priory

Early monastic site, founded 6th century by St Abban; Crutched Friars founded c.1195, probably by William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke; dissolved before 1295; Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual refounded c.1250 (during the reign of Edward I), purportedly by Sir John Devereaux; transferred from earlier site (see immediately above) before 1295; Crutched Friars appear to have attempted to regain the site from the Franciscans 15th century; dissolved 1540; granted to the Earl of Ormond; assigned to Jasper Duffe; friars evicted 1549-50; suppressed 1558, destroyed by the Protestants; apparently reoccupied during the reign of Queen Mary Observant Franciscan Friars reformed 1612