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‘The Abbey’, Malahide

ruins of a chapel

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Balally Monastery ~

supposed Early Christian monastic site (Irish: Baile Amhlaoibh, meaning ‘the town of Olaf’) may commemorate a Viking saint

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Baldongan Monastery

supposed monastic site of friary & nunnery within the walls of the 13th-century Baldongan Castle – order and period unknown; traditionally Knights Templar preceptory

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Ballyboghill Monastery

early monastic site, Gaelic monks prior to the arrival of the Anglo-Normans

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Ballymadun Monastery ø

supposed monastic site — order and period doubtful; purported Augustinian Canons Regular cell

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Ballyman Monastery ø

supposed Knights Templar site

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Castleknock Priory

Benedictine monks dependent on Little Malvern; founded c.1185 by Hugh Tyrrell, Lord of Castleknock; erroneously also given as Augustinian[notes 85] dissolved before 1485

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Clondalkin Abbey

early monastic site, Gaelic monks, traditionally founded by St Cronan (Mo-Chua); plundered by the Danes, 833; burned 1071; granted to the Culdees in perpetuity; possibly continuing after 1111

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Clontarf Monastery

early monastic site, Gaelic monks church founded 550 by St Comgall of Bangor; site now occupied by the remains of St John the Baptist’s C.I. parish church

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Clontarf Preceptory #^

Knights Templar founded before 1180, granted by Henry II; dissolved 1308-10; Knights Hospitaller refounded 1313 (after 1314); dissolved after 1400; granted to Prior Rawson of Kilmainham; Clontarf Castle built on…

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Cruagh Monastery

early monastic site, Gaelic monks founded 5th century by D. Daluan of Croibige in the time of St Patrick

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Dalkey Island

Benedictine monks chapel

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Dublin — All Saints’ Priory

Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian founded c.1166, Canons installed by Dermot Mac Murrough, King of Leinster; dissolved 1539; granted to Lord Devlin 1565; College of the Holy Trinity built on site by Queen Elizabeth…

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Dublin — Holy Trinity Cathedral and Priory +

traditional early monastic site, founded 7th century?; church founded c.1030; apparently Benedictine monks before 1085 to 1096; episcopal diocesan cathedral 1152; Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian founded c.1163; dissolved 1541; continuing as secular cathedral by Queen…

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Dublin — St George’s Monastery ≈

purported monastery of St George mentioned 1199,[notes 86] doubtless a reference to St Mary de Hogges, which is located in the parish of St George

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Dublin — St Mary de Hogges Abbey

Augustinian nuns — Arroaisian dependent on Clonard; founded c.1146 by Dermot Mac Murrough, King of Leinster; independent from before 1195; dissolved 1536, apparently suppressed early 1536; demolished by William Brabazon, under-treasurer of Ireland, materials used…

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Dublin — St Mary’s Abbey

Savignac monks — from Chester founded c.1139; Cistercian monks orders merged 1147-8; apparently dependent on Combermere 1147; apparently dependent on Buildwas 1156-7; attempt to break with Buildwas failed 1307; dissolved 28 October 1539,…

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Dublin — St Saviour’s Priory *

Dominican Friars; church opened 15 January 1861; priory added 1885; Studium – House of Studies since 2000. extant

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Dublin — St Thomas’s Abbey

Augustinian Canons Regular priory founded March 1177 by King Henry II; Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine raised to abbey status c.1192; dissolved 1539; granted to William Brabazon 1545

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Dublin — St. Mary del Dam

purported nunnery;[notes 87] parish church occupied by a woman recluse 1276-7[notes 88]

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