Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Portaferry Monastery # Derry Churches
site thought to be now occupied by two small churches; patron St. Cummain, Virgin, of Dál mBuinne, and of Derry, Parish of Ballyphillip
Portaferry Monastery # Derry Churches
site thought to be now occupied by two small churches; patron St. Cummain, Virgin, of Dál mBuinne, and of Derry, Parish of Ballyphillip
Portaferry Monastery # Derry Churches
site thought to be now occupied by two small churches; patron St. Cummain, Virgin, of Dál mBuinne, and of Derry, Parish of Ballyphillip
Portaferry Monastery # Derry Churches
site thought to be now occupied by two small churches; patron St. Cummain, Virgin, of Dál mBuinne, and of Derry, Parish of Ballyphillip
Portaferry Monastery # Derry Churches
site thought to be now occupied by two small churches; patron St. Cummain, Virgin, of Dál mBuinne, and of Derry, Parish of Ballyphillip
Portaferry Monastery # Derry Churches
site thought to be now occupied by two small churches; patron St. Cummain, Virgin, of Dál mBuinne, and of Derry, Parish of Ballyphillip
Portglenone Abbey Church *
Order: Cistercian monks
Cistercian monks, O.C.S.O. founded 1948 from Baltinglass Abbey, Co Waterford; extant
Portmore Monastery Ballinderry
early monastic site, founded 6th century by St Lua; St Lua known in Scotland as St Moluag
Portrane Priory
Order: Arroasian
Augustinian nuns — Arroasian — from Grace Dieu founded 1539; dissolved after 1577
Portumna Friary
Order: Dominican monks
Dominican monks dependent on Athenry; apparently founded after January 1427 by Chieftain O’Madden, Lord, on the site of the Cistercian monks’ priory (see immediately below); dissolved c.1582; granted to the Earls of Clanricarde…