Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Odder Priory
Founded: c.1144
Order: Arroasian
Dedication infers early monastic site, nuns Augustinian nuns — Arroasian priory founded c.1144?, confirmed to the nuns of Clonard by Pope Celestine III 1195; raised to abbey status c.1383; dissolved…
Old Kilcullen Friary
Order: purported Observant Franciscan Friars
purported Observant Franciscan Friars[notes 120] p.38 — erroneous reference[notes 121]
Old Kilcullen Monastery
early monastic site, chapel and cloister founded 5th century by St Patrick; plundered by Amlaibh from Dublin 938, 939, 944 burned 1114
Omagh Friary
Founded: 1464
Order: Franciscan
Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regular founded 1464; dissolved c.1603; granted to Sir Henry Piers, assigned to Sir Daniel Lee; an ivy-clad wall along the riverbank by Abbey Bridge is purportedly…
Omagh Monastery
Founded: 792
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, apparently founded by 792 (though may refer to Drumragh, supra)
Omey Monastery
early monastic site, founded 7th century by St Fechin of Fore with the aid of King Guare; ruins excavated and re-sited by archaeologists in 1990s
Omolaggie Monastery
Order: Augustinian Canons Regular
early monastic site Augustinian Canons Regular possibly dependent on Cong
Oran Monastery
Founded: 5th century
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, founded in the 5th century by St Patrick