Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Slieve League Monastery
early monastic site, hermitage associated with St Aedh mac Bricc and St Assicus; erenagh until at least 1609
Sligo Friary
Founded: 1252
Order: Canons
Dominican Friars founded 1252 by Maurice fitz Gerald; consecrated 1253; burned down accidentally 1414; rebuilt 1416 by br Brian, son of Dermot Mac Donogh; dissolved 1595, judged to be property…
Sligo Priory
Founded: 1848
Order: Dominican
Dominican Friars church dedicated 6 January 1848; priory built 1865; rebuilt and re-dedicated 13 May 1973; extant
Spike Island Monasteryø~
possible early monastic site, possibly located in County Cork or Carrig Island, County Kerry
St Andrews in Ards Priory
Order: Benedictine monks
Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on Stogursey, Somerset and Lonlay Abbey, France; founded after 1183 by John de Courcy; became denizen:independent from 1356; dissolved c.1543?; granted by James I, to the Protestant Bishop of Armagh
St Anne’s Monastery
early monastic site, possibly founded by Bishop Sanctain (possibly St Sanctain)
St Catherine’s Priory
Order: Augustinian Canons Regular
Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine founded 1219 by Warisius dePech; cell dependent on St Thomas’s, Dublin, 1323; dissolved 1539, surrendered 25 June 1539
St Derivla’s Monastery
Founded: 6th century
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, probably founded in the 6th century by St Dairbhile
St Donard Oratory
early monastic cell/oratory, founded c.506, by Domangart, son of Echaid
St Doolagh’s Monastery
early monastic site, founded by St Doolagh? chapel and cell 1200 possibly built for a hermit or small community