Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Newcastle West Preceptory
Order: Knights Hospitaller
Knights Templar church confirmed to the Knights Hospitaller 1212 — no record of preceptory
Newry Abbey
Order: Cistercian monks
possible foundation of Patrician monks possible Benendictine monks founded before 1148? Cistercian monks — from Mellifont founded 1153 by Maurice MacLaughlin, King of Ireland; confirmation of possessions granted 1538 to become a secular collegiate…
Newtown Nunnery
purported ruins of a house of nuns,[notes 135] foundation, period, order and status unknown
Newtown Trim Cathedral Priory
Founded: 1202
Order: Augustinian
Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine — possibly from St Thomas’s Abbey, Dublin founded 1202 by Simon Rochfort, Bishop of Meath, who translated the see here from Clonard; dissolved 1536, suppressed…
Newtown Trim Priory Hospital
Founded: after 1206
Order: Crutched Friars
Crutched Friars founded after 1206?, possibly by the Bishop of Meath; dissolved 1539; occupier Sir Thomas Cusake 1540-2
Newtownards Priory
Order: Dominican Friars
Dominican Friars founded 1244, purportedly by the Savage family[notes 10] or William de Burgo[notes 11] — evidence lacking for either;[notes 12] dissolved February 1541, surrendered by the prior, Patrick O’Doran; granted to Sir Thomas…
Nohaval Monastery
early monastic site, Gaelic monks, reputedly founded by St Finian; formerly site of a round tower[notes 66]
Nohavaldaly Monastery
early monastic site, Gaelic monks; reported stump of round tower[notes 67]