Monastic Sites

early monastic site, Anchorites founded by St Manchan

early monastic site, founded 632 by St Molling, site purportedly granted by St Aidan, Bishop of Ferns; purported Augustinian Canons Regular (no documentation of foundation); plundered and burnt before 1138; (NM)

Gaelic monks founded 7th century; (NM)

Franciscan Friars, license granted 1414 — no evidence foundation ever implemented

early monastic site, founded by St Patrick burned by the Danes 798; Augustinian Canons Regular founded after 1140; dissolved 1220, transferred to a new site at Holmpatrick

Early monastic site, possibly founded before the time of Becan; (re?)founded by St Abban

Cistercian monks dependent on Dunbrody; possibly located in County Wexford; possible confusion with Graiguenamanagh

Augustinian Canons Regular dependent on Holy Trinity, Dublin; purportedly founded before 1162? by St Laurence O’Toole; Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian reformed probably soon after 1163; dependent on All Saints’,…

Carmelite Friars — possibly Cloncurry

Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine founded c.1205 by Richard, first prior, and Adam de Hereford; dissolved 1536, suppressed 15 September; granted to John Alen, Lord Chancellor, 1 December 1536, last prior allowed to…

Early monastic site, founded 5th/6th century by St Ailbe; diocesan cathedral 1111 see united to Cashel 1562; secular college founded after 1505 and before 1542 by Bishop Thomas Hurley (dissolved…

Collegiate Church Founded before 1225, Contains a Christianised Ogham Stone from 3rd/4thc. Also the oldest inscribed effigy in Ireland of Ralph, portrieve of Gowran in 1218. The effigy is dated 19…