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Monastic Sites

Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape

Monastic Site Donegal

Moville Monastery

early monastic site, Gaelic monks

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Monastic Site Mayo

Moyne Abbey

Founded: before 1455

Order: Conventual

Possibly Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual? founded before 24 March 1455 by Lord Mac William de Burgo, purportedly at the instance of Father Nehemias O’Donohue, or 1458 by Thomas de Burgo,…

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Monastic Site Mayo

Moyne Friary

Founded: 1618

Order: Franciscan

Observant Franciscan Friars — from Moyne Abbey (see immediately above) founded 1618

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Monastic Site Donegal

Moyra Monastery, Ray

site occupied by remains of a 16th-century church

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Monastic Site Clare

Mucinis Monastery ~ (Irish: Mainistir Mhuicinse)

early monastic site, plundered by Norsemen 922; possibly County Clare, either at Hog Island or Lough Derg

Monastic Site

Mucinis Monastery ~ (Irish: Mainistir Mhuicinse)

early monastic site, plundered by Norsemen 922; possibly County Clare, either at Hog Island or Lough Derg

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Monastic Site

Mucinis Monastery ~ (Irish: Mainistir Mhuicinse)

early monastic site, plundered by Norsemen 922; possibly County Clare, either at Hog Island or Lough Derg

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Monastic Site

Mucinis Monastery ~ (Irish: Mainistir Mhuicinse)

early monastic site, plundered by Norsemen 922; possibly County Clare, either at Hog Island or Lough Derg

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Monastic Site

Mucinis Monastery ~ (Irish: Mainistir Mhuicinse)

early monastic site, plundered by Norsemen 922; possibly County Clare, either at Hog Island or Lough Derg

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Monastic Site Antrim

Muckamore Monastery #

Gaelic monks founded 585? (550) By St Colman Elo

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Monastic Site Antrim

Muckamore Priory

Order: Augustinian Canons Regular

Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine founded before 1185; dissolved 1540-1; granted to the Longford family 1639; thatched house built on site 17th century replaced by house built and landscaped gardens…

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Monastic Site Monaghan

Muckno Monastery

Order: Augustinian

Early monastic site, Gaelic monks; plundered by the Ulidians 1110; claimed by Augustinian Friars 17th to 19th century

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