Home» Monastic Sites» Tipperary» Ardcrony Monastery Ardcrony Monastery Tipperary Early Irish Early Christian Ruins About This Site Early monastic site, under coarbs Historical Information Alternative Names: Ardcroine Other Sites in Tipperary Ahenny High Cross High Cross located in Tipperary. Learn More Ardfinnan Monastery Early monastic site, founded late 7th century? by St Finan Lobhar (Finan the Leper); burned by the Normans 1178 Franciscan… Learn More Ardfinnan Preceptory Possibly Knights Templar, initially under Templetown; Knights Hospitaller, under Kilsaran founded 1212? (when church confirmed to the Hospitallers) Learn More Athassel Priory Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1192 (c.1200) by William de Burgo, confirmed by King John 1205; erroneously attributed as Trinitarian; held… Learn More