Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Waterford Greyfriars
Founded: 1240-5
Order: Conventual
Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual founded 1240-5 by Sir Hugh Purcell, buried here; Observant Franciscan Friars reformed 1521; dissolved 1540, surrendered by ‘Prior’ John Linche 2 April 1540; granted to Patrick…
Wexford Friary
Founded: before 1268
Order: Conventual
Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual founded before 1268? (during the reign of Henry III), attributed to the Geraldine family; Observant Franciscan Friars reformed 1486; dissolved 1539-40; granted to Paul Turner and…
Weyperous Preceptory
Order: Knights Hospitaller
Knights Templar church confirmed to the Knights Hospitaller 1212 — no record of preceptory
White Island Monastery
attempts made to identify this location as being Eo-inis monastery
Wicklow Friary
Founded: before 1268
Order: Conventual
Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual founded before 1268? (during the reign of Henry III); Observant Franciscan Friars reformed after 1521?; dissolved c.1551; leased to Henry Harrington 1575
Woodburn Abbey
Order: Premonstratensian Canons
Premonstratensian Canons daughter house of Dryburgh, Scotland; founded before 1326 (1242), by John de Courcy, in succession to Carrickfergus and Druim La Croix (v. supra); dissolved 1 March 1542 [sic]…
Youghal — Carmelite Friary
Order: purportedly established in ruins of earlier Carmelite abbey
post-Reformation foundation purportedly established in the ruins of an earlier Carmelite ‘abbey'[notes 74]