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Carrigillihy Monastery ø, Myross parish

📍 Cork ⛪ supposedly Cistercian monks 🏛️ dissolved

About This Site

unknown or doubtful establishment, supposedly Cistercian monks; founded 1172 by Dermot MacCarthy, King of Desmond; dissolved; granted to Nicholas Walshe, in perpetuity c.1587; ruins erroneously attributed as Maure Abbey[notes 37]…

unknown or doubtful establishment, supposedly Cistercian monks; founded 1172 by Dermot MacCarthy, King of Desmond; dissolved; granted to Nicholas Walshe, in perpetuity c.1587; ruins erroneously attributed as Maure Abbey[notes 37] (actually Abbeymahon)

Historical Information

Alternative Names:
  • Carigillihy
  • Curraghalicky
  • Abbey de Sancto Mauro
Communities & Provenance:

unknown or doubtful establishment, supposedly Cistercian monks; founded 1172 by Dermot MacCarthy, King of Desmond; dissolved; granted to Nicholas Walshe, in perpetuity c.1587; ruins erroneously attributed as Maure Abbey[notes 37] (actually Abbeymahon)