Monastic Sites

early monastic site, Anchorites

Founded 5th century by St Canoc; Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1140-8; Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian? possibly adopted at the instance of St Malachy; ruined 1519; plundered 1531 and 1548;…

Augustinian Friars founded 1500 by Margaret Athy, at the request of Richard Nagle; dissolved before 1578; leased to the town 1578; demolished 1652 in order to use the strategic position…

Augustinian Friars; church opened 4 September 1859; extant

Carmelite Friars founded c.1332? possibly by a member of the de Burgo family; dissolved after 1648

Dominican nuns founded March 1845 on Taylors Hill, country house known as ‘Mount Eaton’ or ‘Seaview’, previously owned by the Sloper family; extant

Dominican nuns founded 1644 in Augustine Street; exiled by the Cromwellians 1652; returned in 1686 to a house in Kirwan’s Lane (see below)

Dominican nuns founded 1686 in Kirwan’s Lane; expelled on a number of occasions 1691 convent, known as The Slate House, in use as barracks for British soldiers; fell into disrepair;…

Franciscan Friars built 1660; rebuilt 1781; extant

Franciscan nuns, (?)Third Order founded 1511, church of St Nicholas purportedly granted by Walter Lynch to his daughter; dissolved during the reign of Elizabeth I

Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual founded 1296 by William de Burgo; Observant Franciscan Friars reformed 1460, and again before 1520; Conventuals and Observants apparently continued together, the latter in the minority;…

possibly formerly a hospital administered by the Premonstratensians Premonstratensian Canons daughter house of Tuam; founded 1235, church purportedly granted to Tuam by the O’Halleran family; dissolved before 1451: relegated to…