Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Ferns Cathedral
Founded: 6th/7th century
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, founded 6th/7th century by St Aidan or M’Aedhoc (Mogue), first bishop of Ferns; diocesan cathedral 1111
Fertagh Priory
Order: Augustinian Canons Regular
early monastic site, founded 5th century by St Ciaran of Seirkieran (St Keiran); Augustinian Canons Regular founded before 1251 by the English family of Blanchfield; destroyed and ruinous 1421; rebuilt 1455 by Thady Megirid, a canon of Inchmacnerin;…
Fethard Abbey
Founded: 6th century
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, founded 6th century by St Abban, patronized by St Maedoc
Fethard Priory
Founded: 1306
Order: Augustinian
Augustinian Friars founded 1306, site granted by Walter Mulcote; dissolved 1540; granted to Edmund Butler, Baron of Dunboyne 16 January 1544; ruins regained c.1820 new Augustinian house established in Fethard;…
Fiddown Monastery
early monastic site, founded before late 6th century; coarbs at least until 1073; church demolished 1870
Finachia Cell
Order: Augustinian
Augustinian Canons Regular possible hermit’s cell on land endowed to Ferns, possibly located in County Wexford
Finglas Monastery
early monastic site, Gaelic monks founded 560 by St Canice; possibly not continuing after 10th century (last recorded abbot died in Rome 1038); site occupied by remains of a medieval church
Finnmag Monastery
Founded: 6th century
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, founded 6th century by St Abban
Fochlud Monastery
Founded: 5th century
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, nuns, founded in the 5th century by St Patrick