Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Enniscorthy Priory
Founded: c.510
Order: Augustinian
Mission house or chapel founded c.510 by St Senan of Scattery; Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine dependent on St Thomas’s, Dublin; cell founded before 1229; dissolved 1539; leased to Edward…
Ennisnag Monastery # C.I.
early monastic site, founded c. 6th century, by Manchan; Prebend Church, founded 1291 by papal authority suppressed c. 16th century; ruins new Protestant church, St. Peters, founded 19th century.
Ennistimon Monastery (Irish: Mainistir Inis Díomáin)
Pre-existing parish church/chapel at the site, built after 1812. Monastery and school founded in 1824 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers. Residence at the site completed by May 1827. Later buildings include a primary school (1931) and nearby secondary school(1970).
Ennistimon Monastery (Irish: Mainistir Inis Díomáin)
Pre-existing parish church/chapel at the site, built after 1812. Monastery and school founded in 1824 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers. Residence at the site completed by May 1827. Later buildings…
Ennistimon Monastery (Irish: Mainistir Inis Díomáin)
Pre-existing parish church/chapel at the site, built after 1812. Monastery and school founded in 1824 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers. Residence at the site completed by May 1827. Later buildings…
Ennistimon Monastery (Irish: Mainistir Inis Díomáin)
Pre-existing parish church/chapel at the site, built after 1812. Monastery and school founded in 1824 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers. Residence at the site completed by May 1827. Later buildings…
Ennistimon Monastery (Irish: Mainistir Inis Díomáin)
Pre-existing parish church/chapel at the site, built after 1812. Monastery and school founded in 1824 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers. Residence at the site completed by May 1827. Later buildings…
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