Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Inishloe Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Inis Lua)
Gaelic monks founded by Turlogh, King of Thomond, buried here; on an island in the Shannon Estuary between Scattery and Limerick[notes 27]
Inishloe Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Inis Lua)
Gaelic monks founded by Turlogh, King of Thomond, buried here; on an island in the Shannon Estuary between Scattery and Limerick[notes 27]
Inishloe Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Inis Lua)
Gaelic monks founded by Turlogh, King of Thomond, buried here; on an island in the Shannon Estuary between Scattery and Limerick[notes 27]
Inishloe Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Inis Lua)
Gaelic monks founded by Turlogh, King of Thomond, buried here; on an island in the Shannon Estuary between Scattery and Limerick[notes 27]
Inishloe Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Inis Lua)
Gaelic monks founded by Turlogh, King of Thomond, buried here; on an island in the Shannon Estuary between Scattery and Limerick[notes 27]
Inishlounaght Abbey
Founded: before 656
Order: Cistercian
Early monastic site, founded before 656 by St Pulcherius; Cistercian monks — probably from Mellifont founded 1147-8 (before May 1148); dependent on Monateranenagh from 1151; dissolved 1540; granted to Cormac…
Inishlounaght Nunnery
Order: Cistercian
Cistercian? nuns purported house adjoining the Cistercian monks’ abbey (see immediately above); foundation and status unknown; dissolved 1228 by Stephen of Lexington
Inishmaan Monastery Aran Islands
early monastic site, two churches under the parish of St Enda, Inishmore
Inishmaan Monastery Aran Islands
early monastic site, two churches under the parish of St Enda, Inishmore
Inishmaan Monastery Aran Islands
early monastic site, two churches under the parish of St Enda, Inishmore
Inishmaan Monastery Aran Islands
early monastic site, two churches under the parish of St Enda, Inishmore
Inishmaan Monastery Aran Islands
early monastic site, two churches under the parish of St Enda, Inishmore