About This Site
Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1138 by Malachi O’Morgair; Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian adopted after 1140; incorporated in Down Cathedral 1513; dissolved before 1541; granted to Gerald, Earl of Kildare
Historical Information
Alternative Names:
- probably St John the Evangelist, though given as St John the Baptist (confusion with Cruciferi priory)
- Monastery of the Irish
- Monaster-Grellach