Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Glencolumbkille Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Ghleann Cholm Cille)
Columban monks founded by St Columcille; CI Church on site
Glencolumbkille Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Ghleann Cholm Cille)
Columban monks founded by St Columcille; CI Church on site
Glencolumbkille Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Ghleann Cholm Cille)
Columban monks founded by St Columcille; CI Church on site
Glencolumbkille Monastery
early monastic site, Gaelic monks founded 6th century by St Colmcille; church on site demolished 1828; C.I. parochial church built on site
Glendalough Cathedral and Monastery
Founded: 6th century
Order: Arroasian
Early monastic site, founded 6th century by St Kevin (Coemgen); diocesan cathedral 1111; burned 1163; Augustinian Canons Regular abbey founded after 1163?; merged with Dublin 1216; Augustinian Canons Regular —…
Glenkeen Monastery
Founded: 5th century
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, founded 5th century by St Patrick (if Glenshaoin) or St Culan (if in the valley of Glean-chaoin)
Glin Friary
Founded: 1507
Order: Conventual
Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual founded 1507 by Thomas Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin; Observant Franciscan Friars reformed 1513; dissolved 1541; granted to Sir Thomas Cusack 1578; granted to Sir Francis Berkeley…
Glin Preceptory?
Order: Knights Hospitaller
Knights Templar church confirmed to the Knights Hospitaller 1212 — no record of preceptory
Gola Priory
Order: Dominican Friars
Dominican Friars founded after 1660 by Fr John MacManus, obtaining land from Lord Enniskillen
Goleen Friary
Order: Franciscan Friars Minor
Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual founded before 1442
Gormanston Friary
Founded: 1947
Order: Franciscan
Franciscan Friars; founded 1947; opened as a secondary school 1954; in use as a Franciscan college; extant