Monastic Sites

early monastic site, founded by St Garban (Gobban) or St Doulagh; St Doulagh C.I. parish church built on site

early monastic site, patron St Coman

Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian founded before 1148 Donough O’Carroll, King of Oriel and Edan O’Kelly (later, bishop of Clogher); church consecrated 1148; dissolved 1539; granted to Sir James Gernon…

Carmelite nuns

Carmelite Friars founded c.1320; also given as Dominican Friars — probable erroneous interpretation of the reference to the Carmelites here as ‘black friars’; dissolved before 1594

Cistercian monks — from Boyle founded 1190 by Cathal Crobderg O’Conor, King of Connacht; dissolved 1542, surrendered by Abbot Hugh O’Kelly 24 May 1542, though a secularised form of monasticism apparently continued;…

order, period and foundation unknown; formerly traces of a religious foundation[notes 119]

Foundation, order and dissolution unknown; granted to John Rawson 1594

Carmelite Friars returned 1735; convent in existence 1737; new church consecrated 1843; extant

Carmelite Friars founded 1356 by James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond for the friars already in the town; dissolved before c.1541; granted to Margaret, Countess of Ormond; friars returned 17th century; expelled before 1654; friars returned 1735; convent in existence 1737;…

Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regular foundation unknown erroneously referred to as Dominican Friars, purportedly by the Bingham family, however they were not in Ireland at the time; dissolved c.1583-4; granted…

Benedictine nuns Abbey founded in 1920 by nuns from Ypres, Belgium. Mansion served as convent boarding school until closure in 2010