Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Clonshire Preceptory?
Order: Knights Hospitaller
Knights Templar church confirmed to the Knights Hospitaller 1212 — no record of preceptory
Clontarf Monastery
early monastic site, Gaelic monks church founded 550 by St Comgall of Bangor; site now occupied by the remains of St John the Baptist’s C.I. parish church
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Order: Knights Hospitaller
Knights Templar founded before 1180, granted by Henry II; dissolved 1308-10; Knights Hospitaller refounded 1313 (after 1314); dissolved after 1400; granted to Prior Rawson of Kilmainham; Clontarf Castle built on…
Clontibret Monastery
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, Gaelic nuns, patronised by St Colman; termon land 1591
Clontuskert Priory
Order: Arroasian
early monastic site, founded c.805 (before 809), by St Boedan; Augustinian Canons Regular – (?)Arroasian founded after 1140, probably by the O’Kelly family; dissolved 1562 Augustinian Friars possibly restored 1637; (NM)
Cloonameehan Friary
Founded: 1488
Order: Dominican
Dominican Friars founded 1488 by Eugene Mac Donogh, license granted by Pope Innocent VIII 1488, on petition of Mac Donogh, the Baron of Norach and Edmund de Lantu; dissolved c.1584;…
Cloonburren Monastery
Founded: before 577-8
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, nuns founded before 577-8 by Cairech Dergen; probably dissolved before 1167
Cloondara Monastery
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, probable patron St Ernan of Cloneogher, 6th century
Cloone Monastery
early monastic site, founded 6th century (probably before 570), by St Cruimthir Fraech (in the time of St Colmcille)
Cloonoghill Abbey
Founded: 6th century
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, founded 6th century by Aedan O Fiachrach in Corran