Mullingar Blackfriars

Early monastic site; some confusion with Linnleire (Lann-Leire), i.e. Dunleer, supra; site currently occupied by Lynn House

Dominican Friars founded c.1488, license granted by Innocent III, at the petition of Edmund de Lantu, to build a friary 1488; dissolved before 1589, when in ownership of Francis Shane,…

Augustinian Friars; site marked by modern statue

Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1200 by Geoffrey de Constentin (Galfred de Constantine); dissolved 1539, surrendered by Prior commendator Edmund Nugent, Bishop of Kilmore; granted to Robert Delman 10 December 1539…