County Sligo

Recorded as Franciscan Friars — no monastic house; Friars of Knockvicar owned land in the parish

Early monastic site, founded in the 6th century; diocesan cathedral; Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian? founded after 1144?; church possibly shared by Canons and nuns (see immediately below); dissolved c.1593?;…

Early monastic site, nuns founded in the 5th century by St Patrick; possibly located in County Roscommon

Early monastic site, founded probably before 563 by St Colmcille; often mistaken for Inshmacnerin

Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian probable cell, dependent on Roscommon; founded before 1266; dissolved before 1466, vicarage granted to the prior of Rindown

Early monastic site, probably founded in the 5th century (in the time of St Patrick); plundered by Norsemen 846

Camelite Friars dependent on Eglish; founded after c.1437; dissolved c.1567, possibly abandoned by the Carmelites; leased to Edmund O’Fallon of Athlone 1575; Franciscan Friars? possibly in occupation in the 16th…

Probably a secular chapel

Early monastic site, possibly founded in the 5th century, possibly by St Patrick; sometimes confused with Ath-da-larc, County Meath; Cistercian monks — from Buniffi (community founded from Grelachdinach 16 August…

Nuns, ‘ruined nunnery’ possibly historically located in County Sligo

Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regular founded before 1487?; dissolved 1582?; leased to Bryan M’Dermot 1582; granted to Thomas Danby

Nuns ‘nunnery in ruins’

Early monastic site, nuns

‘Cloonard abbey and church’

Early monastic site, nuns founded before 577-8 by Cairech Dergen; probably dissolved before 1167

Early monastic site, founded in the 6th century by St Faithlinn; Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian founded after 1140, probably by an O’Conor – possibly Turlough O’Conor; dissolved 1563?; granted…

Early monastic site, founded in the early 6th century? by St Finnian of Clonard

Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian — from Roscommon founded before 1156?, site granted by O’Conor; double monastery with nuns’ priory (see immediately below) until 1223-4; dissolved c.1578?; Augustinian Friars

Augustinian nuns — Arroasian double monastery with Canons’ abbey (see immediately above) founded after 1144; dependent on Kilcreevanty from before 1223; dissolved after 1223-4

Early monastic site, founded in the late 5th century? by Diradius (not Diratus of Ferns), brother of St Canoc