County Derry

early monastic site; hospital of St Gowry 1603

early monastic site; under erenaghs until 16th century

early monastic site; purportedly founded 7th century by St Guar of Aghadowey; Cistercian monks grange of Macosquin

early monastic site, founded 6th century by St Colmcille

early monastic site, founded 6th century by St Colmcille

early monastic site, traditionally founded 11th century? by St Muriedbach O’Heney; under erenaghs until early 17th century

early monastic site, purportedly founded 575 by St Colmcille; oratory burned 1100; under erenaghs until 17th century

early monastic site, founded before c.580; under erenaghs until 16th/17th century

Dominican Friars founded 1244; Dominican Friars, Regular Observant reformed 1484; dissolved 1543

founded 1248

founded 1248

early monastic site, founded 6th century by St Carbreus; dismantled in 1213, Drumtarsey castle erected on site

early monastic site, founded 5th century by St Patrick; burned 731; suffered destruction 1171 and 1177;

early monastic site, traditionally founded 5th century by St Patrick; under secular erenaghs until early 17th century

spurious accounts of earlier Dominican foundation; Dominican Friars founded 1274; dissolved 1576; briefly restored?

Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian — affiliated to SS Peter & Paul, Armagh; founded c.1233?; reportedly in very poor state of repair by 1411, due to warfare and adversity; churches desecrated and community expelled 1566; under occupation by English troops…

purported foundation of Franciscan Friars; (in 1609 the commissioners erroneously took the ruins of the Blackfriars house (see immediately below) to be Franciscan)

early monastic site, traditionally founded c.546 by St Colmcille, but probably c.590 by Fiachra mac Ciárain mac Ainmerech mac Sétna; St Augustine’s C.I. Church or St Columb’s Church are cited as alternative possible…

Cistercian nuns founded 1218; dissolved 1512

early monastic site, apparently founded by a member of the O’Lynn family (suggested by the name Mainister O’Fhloinn); erenaghs until 16th century