Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Inchaquire ?Friary
Order: Dominican Friars
Dominican Friars license granted 1488; possibly a vicarage of Athy between 1488 and 1627
Inchbofin
Founded: mid-5th century
Order: Augustinian
Early monastic site, founded mid-5th century by St Rioch; burned and plundered by the Norsemen on several occasions; church plundered by the Munstermen 1089; suggested Augustinian Canons Regular during the…
Inchcleraun Priory
Founded: 6th century (c.540 or probably earlier)
Order: Augustinian
Early monastic site, founded 6th century (c.540 or probably earlier) by St Diarmuid (Dermod); Augustinian Canons Regular (— Arroasian)? refounded after 1140; plundered several times; plundered 1098 by O’Brien dissolved…
Inchicronan Priory (Irish: Prióireacht Inse Chrónáin)
early monastic site, possibly founded 6th century by patron, St Cronan of Tuamgraney;[notes 25] Augustinian Canons Regular — from Clareabbey dependent on Clare; founded c.1198? by Donald O’Brien, King of Limerick, who granted the island to Clare; parish church 1302, built on the site of an earlier monastery; dissolved c.1543; restored and in use by ‘friars’ in the reign of Elizabeth; church […]
Inchicronan Priory (Irish: Prióireacht Inse Chrónáin)
Order: Augustinian Canons Regular
early monastic site, possibly founded 6th century by patron, St Cronan of Tuamgraney;[notes 25] Augustinian Canons Regular — from Clareabbey dependent on Clare; founded c.1198? by Donald O’Brien, King of Limerick, who granted the…
Inchicronan Priory (Irish: Prióireacht Inse Chrónáin)
Order: Augustinian Canons Regular
early monastic site, possibly founded 6th century by patron, St Cronan of Tuamgraney;[notes 25] Augustinian Canons Regular — from Clareabbey dependent on Clare; founded c.1198? by Donald O’Brien, King of Limerick, who granted the…
Inchicronan Priory (Irish: Prióireacht Inse Chrónáin)
Order: Augustinian Canons Regular
early monastic site, possibly founded 6th century by patron, St Cronan of Tuamgraney;[notes 25] Augustinian Canons Regular — from Clareabbey dependent on Clare; founded c.1198? by Donald O’Brien, King of Limerick, who granted the…
Inchicronan Priory (Irish: Prióireacht Inse Chrónáin)
Order: Augustinian Canons Regular
early monastic site, possibly founded 6th century by patron, St Cronan of Tuamgraney;[notes 25] Augustinian Canons Regular — from Clareabbey dependent on Clare; founded c.1198? by Donald O’Brien, King of Limerick, who granted the…
Inchmacnerin Abbey, Church Island, Lough Key
Founded: 6th century
Order: Arroasian
Early monastic site, Patrician monks founded in the 6th century; Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian? founded 1140-70?; dissolved before 1596; founded post1140; dissolved 1569?; granted to William Taaffe 1596; (NM)