Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Erenagh Abbey
Order: Cistercian monks
Savignac monks — from Furness founded 1127 by Niall Mac Dunlevi, King of Ulster; Cistercian monks orders merged 1147-8; destroyed by John de Courcy 1177; transferred to Inch 1177
Ernaide Monastery
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, oratory?, possibly located in County Louth
Errew Abbey
Founded: c. 1413
Order: Augustinian
Early monastic site Augustinian Canons Regular priory cell dependent on Crossmolina? founded c. 1413? by the Barret family dissolved c. 1585? Augustinian Friars mentioned 1463; monastery/friary 1585-6; friary 1605
Errigal Keerogue Monastery
Founded: before 506
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, patron St Ciaran, founded before 506 by St Macartin; Franciscan St Kieran’s church built on site
Errigal Monastery
early monastic site, purportedly founded 6th century by St Colmcille; destroyed by Norsemen 9th century; erenaghs until 16th/17th century
Errill Monastery
early monastic site, purportedly founded 5th century by St Ciaran; “”Friary (in ruins)”” and “”Church (in ruins)””[notes 134]
Esker Friary
Order: Dominican Friars
Dominican Friars — Regular Observance founded after 1622, site granted by Ulrick Burke, Earl of Clanricarde, at the request of the Provincial, Fr Ross Mageoghegan and other friars; it became St. Dominic’s College used…