Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Annagh, Costello
Order: Augustinian
Augustinian Canons Regular supposed cell dependent on Cong; possible confusion with Annagh, Kilmaine
Annaghdown Abbey of St Mary
Order: Arroasian
Augustinian Canons and Canonesses Regular — Arroasian founded after c.1140, possibly by Turlough O’Conor at the instance of St Malachy; identification sometimes confused with the Premonstratensian foundation to the north; dissolved before 1578, granted to…
Annaghdown Abbey of St. John the Baptist
Order: Premonstratensian Canons
Premonstratensian Canons daughter house of Tuam; founded before 1224; raised to abbey status c.1236; dissolved after 1542?; apparently the abbey was the most northerly of the ruins (known as ‘the…
Annaghdown Cathedral & Nunnery
Order: Arroasians
early monastic site, Gaelic nuns founded 6th (before 578) century by St Brendan for his sister Briga, site traditionally granted by the King of Connacht; Augustinian nuns — Arroaisian adopted after 1144; priory,…
Annaghdown Friary
Order: erroneously listed as Franciscan Friars
erroneously listed as Franciscan Friars[notes 95]
Anothmolt Abbey
Order: Cistercian monks
Cistercian monks — from Stanley, Wiltshire (community founded at Loughmerans c.1202); transferred here c.1204; dissolved c.1207, transferred to new site at Graiguenamanagh
Antrim Monastery
Gaelic monks possibly founded by St Comgall of Bangor; plundered 824; plundered 1018; destroyed 1147
Ard-mic-nascai Monastery
early monastic site, founded before 640 by St Laiseran; Holywood Priory (v. infra) built on site