Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Carrigillihy Monastery, Myross parish
Order: supposedly Cistercian monks
unknown or doubtful establishment, supposedly Cistercian monks; founded 1172 by Dermot MacCarthy, King of Desmond; dissolved; granted to Nicholas Walshe, in perpetuity c.1587; ruins erroneously attributed as Maure Abbey[notes 37]…
Cashel Dominican Friary
Founded: 1243
Order: Dominican
Dominican Friars founded 1243 by David O’Kelly, a Dominican friar of Cork; burned accidentally; rebuilt and co-founded by John Cantwell 1480; partly leased by Prior Edward Brown 1535-6; dissolved 1540;…
Cashel Franciscan Friary
Founded: c.1265
Order: Conventual
Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual; founded c.1265 (during the reign of Henry III) by Lord William Hacket; Observant Franciscan Friars reformed 1538; rented to Edmund Butler, Archbishop of Cashel, December 1538;…
Cashel Franciscan Friary, later site
Founded: 1618
Order: Franciscan
Observant Franciscan Friars founded 1618
Cashel Hospitallers
Order: Knights Hospitaller
Knights Hospitaller, frankhouse under the Hospital of Any, recorded 1541
Cashel Monastery
Order: Augustinian
Augustinian Canons Regular ruins near parish church purportedly remains of a foundation dependent on Inchcleraun
Cashel Priory
Founded: before 1134
Order: Benedictine
Benedictine monks dependent on Ratisbon; founded before 1134 at the instance of Dirmicius, Abbot of Ratisbon; St Cormac’s probably the monks’ chapel; expelled 1269-72 by David Mac Carwill, Archbishop of…
Castleboy Preceptory
Order: Knights Hospitaller
Knights Hospitaller founded 1198 by Hugh de Lacy; dissolved c.1414; leased 1584 to George Alexander
Castlecor ~
supposed monastic site — order, foundation and period unknown; apparent abbey at Castle Corinth[notes 38]
Castledermot Monastery
early monastic site, Gaelic monks founded 842 by the son of Aed Roin, King of Corcu Bascind; plundered by the Danes 842; burned 1106; probably continuing after 1111