Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
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…
Toomona Friary
Founded: 15th century
Order: Dominican
Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regular founded in the 15th century?, founded by the O’Conor family; also dubiously given as Dominican Friars dissolved 1585-8; granted to Richard Kyndelinshe (Kendlemarch) 1588
Toomyvara Priory
Founded: 6th or 7th/8th century
Order: Augustinian
Early monastic site, purportedly founded 6th or 7th/8th century by St Donan 407; Augustinian Canons Regular priory cell, dependent on Monaincha; founded 1140; dissolved before 1585; granted to Milned Magrath,…