priory ireland

Nothing remains of an early monastery founded here by St Baedan who died around 809. Some time in the 12th century the Augustinians were introduced, and the earliest surviving parts of the present church, such as certain windows near the altar, show that the church was erected in the 13th century. By the end of that century it had become one of the richest monasteries in the diocese.

In the second half of the 14th century it had become corrupt, and in 1413, when the monastery consiste...