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Monastic Sites

Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape

Monastic Site Tipperary

Rathronan Camera

Founded: 13th century

Order: Knights Hospitaller

Knights Templar founded 13th century; dissolved 1308; Knights Hospitaller

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Monastic Site Meath

Ratoath Abbey

Founded: c.1300

Order: Augustinian

Augustinian Canons Regular cell? dependent on St Thomas’s Abbey, Dublin?, possibly a hospital maintained by the canons; founded before c.1300?; dissolved after 1456

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Monastic Site Kerry

Rattoo Abbey, nr Ballyduff

Order: Arroasian

possibly Fratres Cruciferi or Knights Hospitaller hospital founded c.1200 by Brother William; ?Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian founded before 1207; dissolved 1542, officially suppressed, convent possibly continued until c.1581; fortified by the Irish, who destroyed it to…

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Monastic Site Kerry

Rattoo Abbey, nr Ballyduff

Order: Arroasian

possibly Fratres Cruciferi or Knights Hospitaller hospital founded c.1200 by Brother William; ?Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian founded before 1207; dissolved 1542, officially suppressed, convent possibly continued until c.1581; fortified by the Irish, who destroyed it to…

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Monastic Site Kerry

Rattoo Abbey, nr Ballyduff

Order: Arroasian

possibly Fratres Cruciferi or Knights Hospitaller hospital founded c.1200 by Brother William; ?Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian founded before 1207; dissolved 1542, officially suppressed, convent possibly continued until c.1581; fortified by the Irish, who destroyed it to…

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Monastic Site Kerry

Rattoo Abbey, nr Ballyduff

Order: Arroasian

possibly Fratres Cruciferi or Knights Hospitaller hospital founded c.1200 by Brother William; ?Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian founded before 1207; dissolved 1542, officially suppressed, convent possibly continued until c.1581; fortified by the Irish, who destroyed it to…

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Monastic Site Kerry

Rattoo Abbey, nr Ballyduff

Order: Arroasian

possibly Fratres Cruciferi or Knights Hospitaller hospital founded c.1200 by Brother William; ?Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian founded before 1207; dissolved 1542, officially suppressed, convent possibly continued until c.1581; fortified by the Irish, who destroyed it to…

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Monastic Site Kerry

Rattoo Abbey, nr Ballyduff

Order: Arroasian

possibly Fratres Cruciferi or Knights Hospitaller hospital founded c.1200 by Brother William; ?Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian founded before 1207; dissolved 1542, officially suppressed, convent possibly continued until c.1581; fortified by the Irish, who destroyed it to…

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Monastic Site Kerry

Rattoo Abbey, nr Ballyduff

Order: Arroasian

possibly Fratres Cruciferi or Knights Hospitaller hospital founded c.1200 by Brother William; ?Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian founded before 1207; dissolved 1542, officially suppressed, convent possibly continued until c.1581; fortified by the Irish, who destroyed it to…

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Monastic Site Kerry

Rattoo Abbey, nr Ballyduff

Order: Arroasian

possibly Fratres Cruciferi or Knights Hospitaller hospital founded c.1200 by Brother William; ?Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian founded before 1207; dissolved 1542, officially suppressed, convent possibly continued until c.1581; fortified by the Irish, who destroyed it to…

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Monastic Site Kerry

Rattoo Abbey, nr Ballyduff

Order: Arroasian

possibly Fratres Cruciferi or Knights Hospitaller hospital founded c.1200 by Brother William; ?Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian founded before 1207; dissolved 1542, officially suppressed, convent possibly continued until c.1581; fortified by the Irish, who destroyed it to…

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Monastic Site Kerry

Rattoo Abbey, nr Ballyduff

Order: Arroasian

possibly Fratres Cruciferi or Knights Hospitaller hospital founded c.1200 by Brother William; ?Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian founded before 1207; dissolved 1542, officially suppressed, convent possibly continued until c.1581; fortified by the Irish, who destroyed it to…

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