Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Clonagh Monastery
possible monastic site — order and period unknown land obtained by priests 1396 without the King’s consent, and concealed from the King
Clonard Abbey
Founded: c.520
Order: Arroasian
Early monastic site, founded c.520 by St Finnian; diocesan cathedral 1111; translated to Trim 1202; Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian founded before 1146 (probably 1144); dissolved 1202?
Clonard Priory
Founded: c.1183
Order: Augustinian
Augustinian Canons Regular — probably from St Thomas’s, Dublin founded c.1183 (between 1183 and 1186) by Hugh de Lacy; cathedral priory; dissolved 1202?
Clonatin Priory
Order: Augustinian
Augustinian Canons Regular Romanesque ruins purported to be cell of Ferns Abbey
Clonbroney Abbey
Founded: 5th century
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, nuns purportedly founded 5th century by St Patrick; dissolved after 1163
Cloncurry Friary
Order: Carmelite Friars
Carmelite Friars founded 1347 by John Roch (Roche), license granted by Edward III; dissolved 1539, church seized 30 April 1539; granted to William Dickson 1543; passed to Richard Slayne; passed…