About This Site
Augustinian Friars founded c. 1430 supposedly by the Angulos (the Nangle-Mac Costello family), traditionally by a descendant of Jordan Dubh Mac Costello; granted to the Earl of Clanricarde 1570; friars permitted to remain; dissolved c. 1586?; land surrendered by the Mac Costello to Theobald Dillon; dissolved c. 1608?; Augustinian Friars restored after the Irish Rebellion 1641; burned 1650; restored 1938; extant
Historical Information
Founded:c. 1430
Dissolved:c. 1586
Associated Saints:the Angulos (the Nangle-Mac Costello family), traditionally by a descendant of Jordan Dubh Mac Costello
Alternative Names:
- The Blessed Virgin Mary
- The Immaculate Conception
- 'The Abbey'
- Bellafamensis
- Hanrahannassa