Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Tobercormick Friary
Founded: c.1488
Order: Dominican
Dominican Friars founded c.1488, license granted by Innocent III, at the petition of Edmund de Lantu, to build a friary 1488; dissolved before 1589, when in ownership of Francis Shane,…
Tobercormick Priory
Order: Augustinian
Augustinian Canons Regular possible canons’ house probably extinct long before 1488 Dominican 200
Toberelly Friary
Order: Franciscan
Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regular cell or chapel, foundation unknown; dissolved during the reign of Queen Elizabeth
Toghergar Friary
Order: purported Franciscan Friars
purported Franciscan Friars — reliable evidence lacking
Tomfinlough Monastery (Irish: Mainistir Thuaim Fhionnlocha)
Gaelic monks; probably not continuing after the 10th century; site now occupied by remains of Tomfinlough church
Tomfinlough Monastery (Irish: Mainistir Thuaim Fhionnlocha)
Gaelic monks; probably not continuing after the 10th century; site now occupied by remains of Tomfinlough church
Toombeola Abbey
Order: Dominican Friars
Dominican Friars dependent on Athenry; apparently founded after January 1427 by Chieftain O’Madden, Lord, on the site of the Cistercian monks’ priory (see immediately below); dubiously suggested Augustinian Friars – Dominicans possibly gave…