Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
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]
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…