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Monastic Sites

Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape

Monastic Site

Kilshanny Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Chill Seanaigh

Order: Augustinian Canons Regular

Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1194 by Donal Mor O’Brien, King of Thomond; dissolved before 1581?; granted to Robert Hickman

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Monastic Site

Kilshanny Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Chill Seanaigh

Order: Augustinian Canons Regular

Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1194 by Donal Mor O’Brien, King of Thomond; dissolved before 1581?; granted to Robert Hickman

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Monastic Site

Kilshanny Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Chill Seanaigh

Order: Augustinian Canons Regular

Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1194 by Donal Mor O’Brien, King of Thomond; dissolved before 1581?; granted to Robert Hickman

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Monastic Site Meath

Kilshine Monastery

Founded: before 597

Order: Early Irish

Early monastic site, nuns founded before 597? by St Abban for St Segnich (Sinchea)

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Monastic Site Meath

Kilskeer Monastery

Founded: 6th century

Order: Early Irish

Early monastic site, monks and nuns?; possible double monastery; founded 6th century (in the time of St Colmcille) by Schiria; possibly monks only from 8th century

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Monastic Site Tyrone

Kilskeery Monastery

Founded: 749

Order: Early Irish

Early monastic site, founded 749; erenagh into 16th century

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Monastic Site Kildare

Kilteel Preceptory

Order: Knights Hospitaller

supposed early monastic site Knights Hospitaller founded before 1212 by Maurice FitzGerald, confirmed by Innocent III; dissolved before 1527

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Monastic Site Limerick

Kilteel Preceptory?

Order: Knights Hospitaller

Knights Templar church confirmed to the Knights Hospitaller 1212 — no record of preceptory

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Monastic Site Galway

Kiltiernan Monastery

early monastic site

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Monastic Site Fermanagh

Kiltierney Monastery

Order: Cistercian monks

early monastic site?; Cistercian monks grange

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Monastic Site

Kiltonga Monastery

cell, unknown order, foundation or founder; referred to as the chapel of Kilarneid

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Monastic Site Westmeath

Kiltoom Monastery

Founded: 5th century

Order: Early Irish

Early monastic site, founded 5th century

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