Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Finnmag Monastery
Founded: 6th century
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, founded 6th century by St Abban
Fochlud Monastery
Founded: 5th century
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, nuns, founded in the 5th century by St Patrick
Fooran Priory
Founded: before 1385
Order: Franciscan
Franciscan? nuns, possibly Second Order, Poor Clare nuns founded before 1385?; dissolved before 1603 (during the reign of Queen Elizabeth?; ruinous by 1605
Fore Priory
Founded: c.630
Order: Augustinian
Early monastic site, founded c. 630 by St Feichin; probably dissolved c.1180, when succeeded by the Benedictine establishment, (see immediately below); recorded 13th century coarbs possibly titular; suggested Augustinian Canons…
Forgney Monastery
Founded: 5th century
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, founded 5th century by St Patrick
Freshford Monastery
early monastic site, founded 655-7 by St Lachtain mac Torben, Abbot of Achaid-Ut; probably continuing after 1111; site currently occupied by 17th-century St Lachtain’s parochial church incorporating 12th century doorway