Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Faughalstown Monastery
Founded: 6th century
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, patronised by St Diarmaid 6th century
Feenish Monastery ~
Gaelic nuns founded (in the time of St Senan of Scattery) by St Brigid, daughter of Conchraid of the Mactail family?
Fenagh Monastery
early monastic site; early bishopric; plundered and damaged 1244; possible community in existence up to 16th century
Fermoy Monastery #?
Order: Cistercian monks
Cistercian monks — from Inishlounaght founded 1170 by Donal Mor O’Brien; dissolved 1542; granted to Tibold Roch, son of Viscount Roch, before 1570; granted to Sir Richard Grenville c.1590
Ferns — St Aidan’s Monastery of Adoration
Founded: 1990
Order: Family of Adoration
Family of Adoration nuns founded 1990, on the site of a parochial church (built 1826) demolished 1970s
Ferns Abbey
Founded: c.1160-2
Order: Arroasian
Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian founded c.1160-2 by Dermot Mac Murrough, King of Leinster, buried here; burned 1159 or 1166; rebuilt by Dermot 1169; plundered and burned by Scottish raiders…