Monastic Sites

Augustinian Canons Regular founded before 1200? by a baron of Naas; hospital added; dissolved 1539, surrendered by Prior Thomas Poswyk 26 July 1539; granted to Thomas Alen of Dublin 20 April…

Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian founded before 1170?, probably on site of earlier monastery (see immediately below), church confirmed to the canons by John de Courcy; surrendered 19 July 1538…

Early monastic site, founded 6th century; Augustinian Canons house probably founded on site

Fratres Cruciferi under Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1200 by Theobald Walter, Pincerna of Ireland; burned by O’Kennedy 1342 became secular 1541-2, dependent on St John’s, Dublin; dissolved 1551; granted to…

Franciscan Friars founded 13th century (during the reign of Henry III) by a Kennedy (possibly L. O’Kennedy) or a Butler dissolved before 1587; granted on lease to Robert Collum (Collam)…

Patrician monks founded 5th century by St Patrick; burned 10th century

Benedictine monks cell, dependent on St Bees founded 1179 by John de Courcy, who granted land to St Bees (dependent on St Mary’s, York), on site of earlier monastery (see immediately above);…

Augustinian Friars founded before 1320, purportedly by Wiliam de la Roche; Observant Augustinian Friars reformed 1484?; dissolved 1540; sold to Margaret, Countess of Ormond and Ossory; leased to John Savage…

Franciscan sisters, Third Order Regular founded between 1625 and 1650

Observant Franciscan Friars built 1615

Early monastic site, founded 6th century by St Abban; Crutched Friars founded c.1195, probably by William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke; dissolved before 1295; Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual refounded c.1250 (during…

Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual transferred to later site (see immediately below) before 1295, probably between 1250 and 1256;