Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Old Kilcullen Friary ø
Order: purported Observant Franciscan Friars
purported Observant Franciscan Friars[notes 120] p.38 — erroneous reference[notes 121]
Old Kilcullen Monastery
early monastic site, chapel and cloister founded 5th century by St Patrick; plundered by Amlaibh from Dublin 938, 939, 944 burned 1114
Omagh Friary
Founded: 1464
Order: Franciscan
Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regular founded 1464; dissolved c.1603; granted to Sir Henry Piers, assigned to Sir Daniel Lee; an ivy-clad wall along the riverbank by Abbey Bridge is purportedly…
Omagh Monastery
Founded: 792
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, apparently founded by 792 (though may refer to Drumragh, supra)
Omey Monastery
early monastic site, founded 7th century by St Fechin of Fore with the aid of King Guare; ruins excavated and re-sited by archaeologists in 1990s
Omolaggie Monastery
Order: Augustinian Canons Regular
early monastic site Augustinian Canons Regular possibly dependent on Cong
Oran Monastery
Founded: 5th century
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, founded in the 5th century by St Patrick
Oristown Monastery
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, cella founded by St Finbar of Cork, site granted by a local chieftain
Ossarge Abbey
Order: Benedictine monks
Benedictine monks dependent on Wurzburg; founded before 1148? (before 1162-5); if Kilkenny, apparently transferred to Jerpoint in, or soon after, 1165; dissolved 1541
Oughaval Monastery
founded c.595 by St Colman of Oughaval; church in parochial use after the 12th century; modified 19th century by the Cosby family