Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Ennis Friary * (Irish: Mainistir na hInse)
Order: Franciscan Friars
Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual founded 1240-7 (before 1242? or c.1284) by Donchad Cairbreach O’Brien (Donatus Carbrac O’Brien), King of Thomond; Observant Franciscan Friars reformed 1536-40 (1550); dissolved; granted to the Earl…
Ennis Friary * (Irish: Mainistir na hInse)
Order: Franciscan Friars
Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual founded 1240-7 (before 1242? or c.1284) by Donchad Cairbreach O’Brien (Donatus Carbrac O’Brien), King of Thomond; Observant Franciscan Friars reformed 1536-40 (1550); dissolved; granted to the Earl…
Ennis Friary * (Irish: Mainistir na hInse)
Order: Franciscan Friars
Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual founded 1240-7 (before 1242? or c.1284) by Donchad Cairbreach O’Brien (Donatus Carbrac O’Brien), King of Thomond; Observant Franciscan Friars reformed 1536-40 (1550); dissolved; granted to the Earl…
Ennis Friary * (Irish: Mainistir na hInse)
Order: Franciscan Friars
Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual founded 1240-7 (before 1242? or c.1284) by Donchad Cairbreach O’Brien (Donatus Carbrac O’Brien), King of Thomond; Observant Franciscan Friars reformed 1536-40 (1550); dissolved; granted to the Earl…
Enniscorthy Abbey
Founded: 1460
Order: Conventual
Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual founded 1460 by Donal, Fuscus (Donal Reagh Cavanagh); Observant Franciscan Friars reformed c.1460 by Dermit (O Murchu); dissolved 1539; granted to James, Earl of Ormond; destroyed…