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Monastic Sites

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

Monastic Site Leitrim

Port Monastery[8]

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Portaferry Monastery # Derry Churches

site thought to be now occupied by two small churches; patron St. Cummain, Virgin, of Dál mBuinne, and of Derry, Parish of Ballyphillip

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Portaferry Monastery # Derry Churches

site thought to be now occupied by two small churches; patron St. Cummain, Virgin, of Dál mBuinne, and of Derry, Parish of Ballyphillip

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Portaferry Monastery # Derry Churches

site thought to be now occupied by two small churches; patron St. Cummain, Virgin, of Dál mBuinne, and of Derry, Parish of Ballyphillip

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Portaferry Monastery # Derry Churches

site thought to be now occupied by two small churches; patron St. Cummain, Virgin, of Dál mBuinne, and of Derry, Parish of Ballyphillip

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Portaferry Monastery # Derry Churches

site thought to be now occupied by two small churches; patron St. Cummain, Virgin, of Dál mBuinne, and of Derry, Parish of Ballyphillip

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Monastic Site

Portaferry Monastery # Derry Churches

site thought to be now occupied by two small churches; patron St. Cummain, Virgin, of Dál mBuinne, and of Derry, Parish of Ballyphillip

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Monastic Site Antrim

Portglenone Abbey Church *

Order: Cistercian monks

Cistercian monks, O.C.S.O. founded 1948 from Baltinglass Abbey, Co Waterford; extant

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Monastic Site Antrim

Portmore Monastery Ballinderry

early monastic site, founded 6th century by St Lua; St Lua known in Scotland as St Moluag

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Monastic Site Antrim

Portmuck ‘Abbey’

Order: Cistercian monks

Cistercian monks apparently a grange of Inch

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Monastic Site Dublin

Portrane Priory

Order: Arroasian

Augustinian nuns — Arroasian — from Grace Dieu founded 1539; dissolved after 1577

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Monastic Site Galway

Portumna Friary

Order: Dominican monks

Dominican monks dependent on Athenry; apparently founded after January 1427 by Chieftain O’Madden, Lord, on the site of the Cistercian monks’ priory (see immediately below); dissolved c.1582; granted to the Earls of Clanricarde…

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