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Abbeymahon Abbey

📍 Cork ⛪ Cistercian monks 🏛️ dissolved 1541

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Cistercian monks — from Baltinglass, County Wicklow; (community founded at Aghamanister 1172); transferred from Aghamanister before 1278; founded 1278 by Count McSheribay; jurors deemed the church to have been in…

Cistercian monks — from Baltinglass, County Wicklow; (community founded at Aghamanister 1172); transferred from Aghamanister before 1278; founded 1278 by Count McSheribay; jurors deemed the church to have been in parochial use from time immemorial February 1541; dissolved 1541; leased to Viscount Barrymore 1568; leased to Nicholas Walshe, Justice of Munster, 1584; granted in perpetuity to Walshe 1587

Historical Information

Alternative Names:
  • Abbey Mahon Abbey
  • Fons Vivus
  • Maun
  • Maure
  • O'Manne
  • Ui-Badamna
  • O'Badvine
  • Obalvine
Communities & Provenance:

Cistercian monks — from Baltinglass, County Wicklow; (community founded at Aghamanister 1172); transferred from Aghamanister before 1278; founded 1278 by Count McSheribay; jurors deemed the church to have been in parochial use from time immemorial February 1541; dissolved 1541; leased to Viscount Barrymore 1568; leased to Nicholas Walshe, Justice of Munster, 1584; granted in perpetuity to Walshe 1587