Home» Monastic Sites» Dublin» Swords Monastery = Swords Monastery = Dublin About This Site early monastic site, founded c.560 by St Columbkill Historical Information Alternative Names: Sord-coluim-cilleSuird Other Sites in Dublin ‘The Abbey’, Malahide ruins of a chapel Learn More Balally Monastery supposed Early Christian monastic site (Irish: Baile Amhlaoibh, meaning 'the town of Olaf') may commemorate a Viking saint Learn More Baldongan Monastery supposed monastic site of friary & nunnery within the walls of the 13th-century Baldongan Castle - order and period unknown; traditionally Knights… Learn More Baldurgan Holy Well St Bridget’s Well consists of a natural spring well in a hollow in a field under tillage. Described in 1975… Learn More