abbeys ireland

Holycross is a Cistercian Abbey which has been restored in recent years. The Abbey dates to the 15th century. The Church consists of a nave and Chancel with two transepts. The northern transcept has traces of one of the new remaining medieval wall paintings in Ireland....

Two miles (3km) to the north-west is Shelton Abbey, formerly the residence of the Earls of Wicklow and now a state forestry school. The demense is noted for its rhodendrons.
This is now used as a prison since the 1970's....

Cistercian Abbey, one of the finest, if little known abbeys. It features a truly delightful east rose window and an undisturbed air of rural tranquillity which belies its turbulent history....

Three miles (5km) south of Rathdrum is Whaley Abbey, residence in the eighteenth century of a noted Dublin 'blood' called Buck Whaley. He made a famous bet, which he won , that he would walk to Jerusalem and back within two years....

In 1148 Dermot Mac Murrough brought Cistercian monks here from Mellifont to found a new monastery which he called 'The Valley of Salvation', and Baltinglass in turn was the mother-house of a number of other Cistercian foundations including Jerpoint, Co. Kilkenny. The monastery was the centre of a number of disputes in the 13th century, one with the Archbishop of Dublin and another in which the monks were accused of harbouring 'felons against the English'. In 1377 Abbot Peter was awarded damages...

The site of St. Cannice's Monastery in the sixth-century. Plundered in 913, rebuilt in 1052, burnt I 1116, rebuilt in 1234, and again burnt in 1346. The nineteenth-century church on the site of the Augustinian Priory church retains thirteenth-century pieces and pieces from the nearby fourteenth-century Dominican Abbey. To the east is Aghaboe House (private), a recently restored early eighteenth-century house. In a field to the north is Adam de Hereford's square motte....

This abbey is situated a short distance outside the town and was first a Cistercian then a Benedictine Monastery. The remains consist of portions of the cloister and two chapels in each transept. A tower was added in the 15th century....

An Abbey dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and founded for the Cistercians from Boyle in 1189-90 by Cathal Crovdearg O'Connor, King of Connacht. The church has a nave, chancel and a transept with two chapels. The nave is simple and austere, with little ornament except at the top of the pillars. In contrast, the rib-vaulted chancel has beautifully carved stonework with fine capitals and east windows. It has a 13th century tomb niche.

On the north wall of the chancel is a unique...

Drumlane Church and Round Tower were part of an Augustinian abbey foundation.
The siting of the monastery was inspired, as the 14th century church and earlier tower are beautifully situated between Drumlane and Derrybrick lakes.

An unusual feature of the Round Tower is the engraving of a cock on the north face, thought to symbolise the resurrection.
The present buildings occupy the site of a 6th century monastery founded by St. Mogue, a pupil of St David of Wales....