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Monastic Sites

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

Monastic Site Fermanagh

Tivealough Monastery ø Keenaghan

Order: purportedly Franciscan Friars

possibly an early Christian monastic site, fd. before the 12th century;[1] purportedly Franciscan Friars[2] evidence lacking;[3][1] medieval ruins described as ‘abbey or church’

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Monastic Site Fermanagh

Tivealough Monastery ø Keenaghan

Order: purportedly Franciscan Friars

possibly an early Christian monastic site, fd. before the 12th century;[1] purportedly Franciscan Friars[2] evidence lacking;[3][1] medieval ruins described as ‘abbey or church’

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Monastic Site Fermanagh

Tivealough Monastery ø Keenaghan

Order: purportedly Franciscan Friars

possibly an early Christian monastic site, fd. before the 12th century;[1] purportedly Franciscan Friars[2] evidence lacking;[3][1] medieval ruins described as ‘abbey or church’

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Monastic Site Cork

Toames Monastery

Gaelic monks

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Monastic Site Westmeath

Tobercormick Friary

Founded: c.1488

Order: Dominican

Dominican Friars founded c.1488, license granted by Innocent III, at the petition of Edmund de Lantu, to build a friary 1488; dissolved before 1589, when in ownership of Francis Shane,…

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Monastic Site Westmeath

Tobercormick Priory

Order: Augustinian

Augustinian Canons Regular possible canons’ house probably extinct long before 1488 Dominican 200

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Monastic Site Sligo

Toberelly Friary

Order: Franciscan

Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regular cell or chapel, foundation unknown; dissolved during the reign of Queen Elizabeth

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Monastic Site Galway

Toghergar Friary

Order: purported Franciscan Friars

purported Franciscan Friars — reliable evidence lacking

Monastic Site Donegal

Toghernegomarkie Monastery

early monastic site; erenagh lands until at least 1609

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Monastic Site Clare

Tomfinlough Monastery (Irish: Mainistir Thuaim Fhionnlocha)

Gaelic monks; probably not continuing after the 10th century; site now occupied by remains of Tomfinlough church

Monastic Site

Tomfinlough Monastery (Irish: Mainistir Thuaim Fhionnlocha)

Gaelic monks; probably not continuing after the 10th century; site now occupied by remains of Tomfinlough church

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Monastic Site

Tomfinlough Monastery (Irish: Mainistir Thuaim Fhionnlocha)

Gaelic monks; probably not continuing after the 10th century; site now occupied by remains of Tomfinlough church

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