About This Site
Cistercian monks founded by 1224; convent driven off by pirates became cell of Abbeyknockmoy after 1224 dissolved during the reign of Queen Elizabeth?; probably place of refuge for Carmelite Friars…
Cistercian monks founded by 1224; convent driven off by pirates became cell of Abbeyknockmoy after 1224 dissolved during the reign of Queen Elizabeth?; probably place of refuge for Carmelite Friars with other orders in the late 16th and 17th century
Historical Information
Founded: by 1224
Alternative Names:
- Saint Brigid's Abbey
- The Blessed Virgin Mary (from 1254)
- 'the Abbey'
- 'Friary' (1605)
- Mainister-ni-clarch
- Cliara
- Cleara
- Clara
- Insula Maris
- Oilen-ui-maile