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Monastic Sites

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

Monastic Site Wexford

Coolgraney Friary

Order: Augustinian

Possible Augustinian Friars; site probably occupied by St Austin’s church, Inch

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Monastic Site Tipperary

Corbally Priory

Founded: c.1485

Order: Augustinian

Augustinian Canons Regular — from Monaincha founded c.1485?; dissolved before 1585; granted to Sir Lucas Dillon 1585-6

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Monastic Site Clare

Corcomroe Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Chorca Mrua)

suggested early monastic site, Irish monks founded 1175?; Cistercian monks from Inish-lounaght; founded 1194/5, endowed by Donald O’Brien, King of Limerick; dissolved after 1600; granted to Richard Harding (date unknown); (NM)

Monastic Site

Corcomroe Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Chorca Mrua)

Order: Cistercian monks

suggested early monastic site, Irish monks founded 1175?; Cistercian monks from Inish-lounaght; founded 1194/5, endowed by Donald O’Brien, King of Limerick; dissolved after 1600; granted to Richard Harding (date unknown); (NM)

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Monastic Site

Corcomroe Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Chorca Mrua)

Order: Cistercian monks

suggested early monastic site, Irish monks founded 1175?; Cistercian monks from Inish-lounaght; founded 1194/5, endowed by Donald O’Brien, King of Limerick; dissolved after 1600; granted to Richard Harding (date unknown); (NM)

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Monastic Site

Corcomroe Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Chorca Mrua)

Order: Cistercian monks

suggested early monastic site, Irish monks founded 1175?; Cistercian monks from Inish-lounaght; founded 1194/5, endowed by Donald O’Brien, King of Limerick; dissolved after 1600; granted to Richard Harding (date unknown); (NM)

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Monastic Site

Corcomroe Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Chorca Mrua)

Order: Cistercian monks

suggested early monastic site, Irish monks founded 1175?; Cistercian monks from Inish-lounaght; founded 1194/5, endowed by Donald O’Brien, King of Limerick; dissolved after 1600; granted to Richard Harding (date unknown); (NM)

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Monastic Site Tyrone

Corickmore Abbey

Founded: before 1500

Order: Franciscan

Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regular founded before 1500; dissolved c.1603; granted to Sir Henry Piers; assignee Sir Daniel Lee

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Monastic Site Cork

Cork – St. Mary’s Dominican Church and Priory

Order: Dominican Friars

Dominican Friars Novitate extant

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Monastic Site Cork

Cork — Gill Abbey

daughter house of Cong; founded 1136-7? by Cormac Mac Carthy; dissolved 1542-4; granted c.1590 to Cormac MacCarthy and Sir Richard Grenville; CI Church on site

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Monastic Site Cork

Cork — St Sepulchre’s Priory ø

Order: Benedictine monks

Benedictine monks — held by St Nicholas’s Priory, Exeter, sometime having a prior, though no community here

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Monastic Site Cork

Cork — St Stephen’s Priory

founded before 1295; converted to the Blue-coat Hospital 1674

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