County Meath

Early monastic site

Early monastic site

Early monastic site, Patrician monks

Carmelite Friars founded 1317, license to grant land granted 17 October 1317; dissolved 1539; occupied by farmer Thomas Casey 1540; not in the list of restored convents c.1737; site now…

Augustinian Canons Regular founded before 1200?, supposedly by Jordan Comin; dissolved 1537, surrendered by Prior Thomas Bermingham 15 October 1537; church found to be parochial by 1540; granted to Sir…

Cistercian monks — from Mellifont founded 1147 by Murchad O Melaghlin, King of Meath, colonized 14 January 1147; dissolved 6 May 1536; held by John Alen, Lord Chancellor; granted to…

Cistercian monks — from Beaubec, France founded before 1216, manor granted by Walter de Lacy to the monks of St Mary and St Laurence de Bellow Becco, confirmed by Henry…

Augustinian nuns — Arroasian — from Duleek? dependent on Clonard-Odder; founded after 1195?, church confirmed to the nuns of Clonard 1195; church possibly shared by canons and canonesses possibly from…

Early monastic site, founded 8th century by St Ciaran; plundered by Norsmen 949; burned by MacMurrough 1170

Early monastic site, founded c.520 by St Finnian; diocesan cathedral 1111; translated to Trim 1202; Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian founded before 1146 (probably 1144); dissolved 1202?

Augustinian Canons Regular — probably from St Thomas’s, Dublin founded c.1183 (between 1183 and 1186) by Hugh de Lacy; cathedral priory; dissolved 1202?

Early monastic site, nuns, founded before 760 by St Fintana?

Early monastic site possibly located in County Meath

Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian dependent on Llanthony Prima; founded after 1183? by Hugh de Lacy; dissolved 1540; granted to Henry Draycott 1559

Franciscan Friars

Early monastic site, founded 5th century?

Early monastic site, nuns, founded 6th century (in the time of St Finnian of Clonard)

Early monastic site, possibly located in County Meath

Nuns, ruins purportedly a nunnery

Early monastic site, founded 5th century (in the time of St Patrick)