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Annaghdown Abbey of St Mary

📍 Galway ⛪ Arroasian 🏛️ dissolved before 1578

About This Site

Augustinian Canons and Canonesses Regular — Arroasian founded after c.1140, possibly by Turlough O’Conor at the instance of St Malachy; identification sometimes confused with the Premonstratensian foundation to the north; dissolved before 1578, granted to…

Augustinian Canons and Canonesses Regular — Arroasian founded after c.1140, possibly by Turlough O’Conor at the instance of St Malachy; identification sometimes confused with the Premonstratensian foundation to the north; dissolved before 1578, granted to Richard, Earl of Clanricarde 1562

Historical Information

Alternative Names:
  • The Abbey of Saint Mary de Portu Patrum, Annaghdown
Communities & Provenance:

Augustinian Canons and Canonesses Regular — Arroasian founded after c.1140, possibly by Turlough O'Conor at the instance of St Malachy; identification sometimes confused with the Premonstratensian foundation to the north; dissolved before 1578, granted to Richard, Earl of Clanricarde 1562