Monastic Sites
Discover Ireland's ancient monasteries and abbeys that shaped the spiritual landscape
Inisanlaoi Monastery (Irish: Prióireacht Inis an Lao)
Order: Franciscan
monastic site, unknown order and foundation, actually Ennis Franciscan Friary (supra)[notes 26]
Inisanlaoi Monastery (Irish: Prióireacht Inis an Lao)
Order: Franciscan
monastic site, unknown order and foundation, actually Ennis Franciscan Friary (supra)[notes 26]
Inisanlaoi Monastery (Irish: Prióireacht Inis an Lao)
Order: actually Ennis Franciscan Friary
monastic site, unknown order and foundation, actually Ennis Franciscan Friary (supra)[notes 26]
Inisbeg Monastery
Founded: 5th century
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, founded 5th century? (by the time of St Patrick)
Inisdoimle Monastery
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, founded by St Bairrfhinn, son of Aed, Prince of Dublin; plundered a number of times between 820 and 960
Inisfail Monastery
Founded: 5th century
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, founded 5th century by St Patrick, to whom land was granted by Cremthann
Inish-loinge
nuns, founded 6th century (in the time of St Senan),[notes 28] sited between Scattery and Limerick
Inishbofin Monastery
Order: suggested Augustinian Canons Regular during reign of Henry VIII
early monastic site, Gaelic monks founded 7th century by St Coleman supposed Benedictine monks — evidence lacking; suggested Augustinian Canons Regular during the reign of Henry VIII — evidence lacking
Inishcaltra Monastery
Founded: 6th century
Order: Early Irish
Early monastic site, purportedly founded 6th century by St Caimin; monastic lands recorded as late as 1615
Inishcarra Monastery
early monastic site, Gaelic monks founded by St Senan, who left a community of disciples; dissolved