Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Legan Abbey, Monkstown
Order: Benedictine monks
Benedictine monks, daughter house of Waterford Priory dependent on Waterford and Bath; founded sometime before 1301 (after 1204); dissolved before 1350?
Legan Abbey, Monkstown
Order: Benedictine monks
Benedictine monks, daughter house of Waterford Priory dependent on Waterford and Bath; founded sometime before 1301 (after 1204); dissolved before 1350?
Leighlin Abbey +
Gaelic monks founded c.600 by St Gobban; episcopal diocesan cathedral; destroyed by fire c.1060; new cathedral built 12th-13th century; extant; secular canons purportedly instituted at the cathedral by Bishop John Mulgan (Seaán Ó Maolagáin) c.1422;…
Leighlin Friary ≈
Order: Franciscan Friars
Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regular — erroneous reference to the friary of Bakil, Wicklow[notes 16]
Leighlin Priory
Order: Arroasian
Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian founded after 1163? at the instance of St Lawrence O’Toole (dubious reference to 9th century foundation by Burchard, son of Gurmund, a Norwegian); dissolved c.1392; petition for suppression…
Leighlinbridge Priory
Order: Carmelite monks
Carmelite monks founded 1265-72 (before the death of Henry III) by a member of the Carew family; dissolved before 1541; converted into a fort; restored, convent in existence c.1737
Leixlip Abbey ø≈
land granted to St Catherine’s, Dublin before 1224; reference to ‘monastery’ probably error for a chantry; rectory held by St Thomas’s Abbey 1540
Lemanaghan Monastery
Founded: c.645-6
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, founded c.645-6 by St Managhan?, land granted to the community at Clonmacnoise; extant 893; apparently extant 1205
Lia na Manach Monastery
Founded: 5th century
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, possibly founded in the 5th century by St Patrick