Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Coolgraney Friary
Order: Augustinian
Possible Augustinian Friars; site probably occupied by St Austin’s church, Inch
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
Cork – St. Mary’s Dominican Church and Priory
Order: Dominican Friars
Dominican Friars Novitate extant
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
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