County Tipperary
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Ardfinnan Monastery
Founded: late 7th century
Early monastic site, founded late 7th century? by St Finan Lobhar (Finan the Leper); burned by the Normans 1178 Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regular foundation and founder unknown; dissolved c.1542;…
Ardfinnan Preceptory
Founded: 1212
Possibly Knights Templar, initially under Templetown; Knights Hospitaller, under Kilsaran founded 1212? (when church confirmed to the Hospitallers)
Athassel Priory
Founded: 1192
Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1192 (c.1200) by William de Burgo, confirmed by King John 1205; erroneously attributed as Trinitarian; held in commandam by Edmund Butler, Archbishop of Cashel; dissolved 1541;…
Baptistgrange
Crutched Friars (Augustinian rule) non-conventual grange of St John the Baptist’s, Dublin; leased to the Countess of Ormond 1541
Cahir Priory
Founded: c.1200–1220
Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1200–1220 (during the reign of King John) by Galfrid de Camville; dissolved 1540; church parochial and conventual buildings occupied by Sir Thomas Butler by January 1541;…
Carrick on Suir Hospital Priory
Founded: c.1236
Order of St Thomas of Acon founded c.1236 by William de Cantelo, with the consent of his wife Dionisia, confirmed by John de Norragh c.1250; dependent on Acon, London; dwellings…
Carrick on Suir Hospitallers
Knights Hospitaller, frankhouse under the Hospital of Any, recorded 1541
Carrick on Suir Priory
Founded: 1385
Franciscan nuns founded 1385?; dissolved 1542? house purportedly built on site, before 1603 (during the reign of Elizabeth I) by Thomas, 10th Earl of Ormond as principal residence for the…
Cashel Dominican Friary
Founded: 1243
Dominican Friars founded 1243 by David O’Kelly, a Dominican friar of Cork; burned accidentally; rebuilt and co-founded by John Cantwell 1480; partly leased by Prior Edward Brown 1535-6; dissolved 1540;…
Cashel Franciscan Friary
Founded: c.1265
Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual; founded c.1265 (during the reign of Henry III) by Lord William Hacket; Observant Franciscan Friars reformed 1538; rented to Edmund Butler, Archbishop of Cashel, December 1538;…
Cashel Hospitallers
Knights Hospitaller, frankhouse under the Hospital of Any, recorded 1541
Cashel Priory
Founded: before 1134
Benedictine monks dependent on Ratisbon; founded before 1134 at the instance of Dirmicius, Abbot of Ratisbon; St Cormac’s probably the monks’ chapel; expelled 1269-72 by David Mac Carwill, Archbishop of…
Clonmel Black Friary
Dominican Friars probably founded shortly before 1641; probably dissolved at the Cromwellian persecution; friars made an unsuccessful bid to return after the Restoration
Clonmel Friary
Founded: 1269
Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual founded 1269 by Otho de Grandison or the Geraldine family (the earls of Desmond), or by the townsmen of Clonmel; Observant Franciscan Friars reformed 1536; dissolved…
Clonmel White Friary
Carmelite Friars foundation unknown; dissolved c.1541, surrendered by the prior by April 1541; church found to be in parochial use; refounded by c.1737
Clonoulty Preceptory
Founded: before 1200
Knights Templar founded before 1200?, founder unknown; dissolved 1308-11; Knights Hospitaller