Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Nendrum Priory
Order: Benedictine monks
Benedictine monks cell, dependent on St Bees founded 1179 by John de Courcy, who granted land to St Bees (dependent on St Mary’s, York), on site of earlier monastery (see immediately above);…
New Ross Austin Friars
Founded: before 1320
Order: Augustinian
Augustinian Friars founded before 1320, purportedly by Wiliam de la Roche; Observant Augustinian Friars reformed 1484?; dissolved 1540; sold to Margaret, Countess of Ormond and Ossory; leased to John Savage…
New Ross Franciscan Nunnery
Founded: between 1625 and 1650
Order: Franciscan
Franciscan sisters, Third Order Regular founded between 1625 and 1650
New Ross Priory
Founded: 6th century
Order: Conventual
Early monastic site, founded 6th century by St Abban; Crutched Friars founded c.1195, probably by William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke; dissolved before 1295; Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual refounded c.1250 (during…
New Ross Priory, earlier site
Order: Conventual
Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual transferred to later site (see immediately below) before 1295, probably between 1250 and 1256;
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…