Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Kinalehin Friary, nr Abbey
Order: Franciscan Friars Minor
Carthusian monks — possibly from Hinton founded c.1252 by John de Cogan I; purportedly destroyed 1279 and if so, rebuilt soon after; sold to the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem 1306 -…
Kinalehin Friary, nr Abbey
Order: Franciscan Friars Minor
Carthusian monks — possibly from Hinton founded c.1252 by John de Cogan I; purportedly destroyed 1279 and if so, rebuilt soon after; sold to the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem 1306 -…
Kinalehin Friary, nr Abbey
Order: Franciscan Friars Minor
Carthusian monks — possibly from Hinton founded c.1252 by John de Cogan I; purportedly destroyed 1279 and if so, rebuilt soon after; sold to the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem 1306 -…
Kinalehin Friary, nr Abbey
Order: Franciscan Friars Minor
Carthusian monks — possibly from Hinton founded c.1252 by John de Cogan I; purportedly destroyed 1279 and if so, rebuilt soon after; sold to the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem 1306 -…
Kinalehin Friary, nr Abbey
Order: Franciscan Friars Minor
Carthusian monks — possibly from Hinton founded c.1252 by John de Cogan I; purportedly destroyed 1279 and if so, rebuilt soon after; sold to the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem 1306 -…
Kinard Nunnery
Founded: before 1650
Order: Augustinian
Monks, according to local tradition — order and foundation unknown; land granted to Augustinian Canons Regular of Tristernagh 1293; Franciscan Sisters, Third Order founded before 1650
Kinlough Monastery
Founded: c. 8th century
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, founded c. 8th century
Kinneigh Monastery
Gaelic monks founded by St Colman; possibly not surviving after 10th century
Kinnitty Monastery
Founded: before 557
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, possibly founded by 557; plundered by Norsemen 842; site possibly marked by a High cross within a churchyard
Kinsale Friary *
Order: Carmelite Friars
Carmelite Friars founded 1334[notes 60] (during the reign of Edward III[notes 61]) by Robert fitz Richard Balrain; dissolved 1541 (1543); Queen Elizabeth I; rebuilt 2003-2006; extant