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Ballymacadane Abbey

📍 Cork ⛪ Augustinian Nuns 🏛️ dissolved 1539

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Augustinian nuns founded c.1450? by Cormac MacCarthy MacTiege Laider; dissolved1539?; site granted to Franciscan Friars (see immediately below)

Augustinian nuns founded c.1450? by Cormac MacCarthy MacTiege Laider; dissolved1539?; site granted to Franciscan Friars (see immediately below)

Historical Information

Alternative Names:
  • Balie-macedan
  • Bally-macedan
  • Bally-magadain
  • Bally-vacadane
Communities & Provenance:

Augustinian nuns founded c.1450? by Cormac MacCarthy MacTiege Laider; dissolved1539?; site granted to Franciscan Friars (see immediately below)

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