friaries ireland

This is an attractive old world village, a National Tidy Town winner, set at the entrance to Multyfarnham Friary. The Fransciscans have a long association with this place, having set up a monastery there in the early 14th century. Despite the dissolution of the monasteries in 1535 and havig been evicted a number of times, they always returned and now run a modern agricultural college.

The church, recently restored in the traditional Franciscan style, incorporates original sections d...

Friary:

For a long time the Cistercians of Dunbrody had a chapel here dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul, but when it was abandoned by them O'Madden, the local chieftain, gave it to the Dominicans who, with the consent of the Cistercians, erected a friary and a church which they dedicated to the Blessed Virgin. Pope Martin V granted a Bull to confirm their possessions in 1426.

The remains consist of a church with nave, chancel and transepts, a cloister and domestic build...

This Franciscan Friary is said to have been founded by John de Cogan around 1250 and was richly endowed by the De Feoris or de Bermingham family. The ruins consist of a nave-and-chancel church and portions of the cloister. The chancel has six side-windows and has a triple sedilia of about 1300.

The north aisle was added to the nave at a later stage. In the 15th century the lancet windows in the east wall were replaced by the present well-preserved splayed window, the tower was added,...

A Carmelite friary founded by MacSwiney, Lord of Fanad, in the 15th century. It consists of a nave-and-chancel church with south transept and some domestic buildings. The friars still seem to have been in occupation as late a 1595 for in that year George Og Bingham raided it and took 24 Mass Vestments, church plate and other things.

It was leased to Captain Ralph Bingley in 1602, when it consisted of one ruinous church, a steeple, a cloister, a hall, three chambers, an orchard and one...

The gateway to the present Catholic parish church is part of a Franciscan friary founded by Maelruanigh O'Carroll before 1477. Only the east and north walls of the chancel, the bell tower and parts of the northern nave arcade remain, and some other pieces have been built into the walls. Near the west end of the modern church is a pillar with the carving of an animal which was removed here from Timoney Park 8km away and which may date to the 8th century....

The Friary was founded some time before 1400 by the O'Dowdas, princes of Hy Fiachrach, for the Eremites of St. Augustine. The church dates to shortly after the foundation and has a finely ornamented west doorway with 2 human heads, and a window above it....

John O'Connor founded this Friary for the Franciscans in 1478 which is thought to be on the site of an older monastery founded by St. Lachtin (died 622). It consists of a long church with north transept and some domestic buildings. The west window of the church has an attractive flame-like form. There are two tomb-niches in the nave and a triple sedilia in the choir. Around the cloister can be seen the remains of domestic buildings, including the refectory on the east side, with t...

The Franciscan Friary at Fair Hill was built on the site known as Martyr's Hill, a place of public execution in the 17th century. The stained glass window over the main entrance is by the famous Irish artist Harry Clarke and is said to be one of the finest in Ireland. The church also has a magnificent high altar, beautifully carved in wood....

The Friary was founded in 1507 by the McDonaghs. The unusual church has almost identical windows at each end. The church was entered by doors in the north and south walls. The most remarkable feature of the church is the central tower and belfry, which also acted as a rood-screen, with a narrow passage and two rooms on the ground floor, and an arrangement of three arches (the central one being taller than the other two) on the first floor which is only reachable by a dangerous set of steps on...

The Friary was founded by permission of Pipe Nicholas for the Observantine Franciscans in 1460. The founder may have been MacWilliam Burke or one of the Barrett family. The church consists of a rectangular nave and chancel with an eastward extension of the nave which is wider than it. The west doorway was added in the 17th century. There is also a chapel running southwards from the east end of the church. The tower was added later, though apparently planned originally as part of the church....