abbeys ardfert

The Abbey was erected on the site of an older monastery  some time after 1216 by Geoffrey de Marisco for the Canons Regular of St. Augustine. The Abbey was dedicated to Our Blessed Lady and by 1302 it was the third richest monastery in the Diocese of Ardfert with its Prior being a Lord of Parliament.

Only the church, with a single long nave, remains. The windows, doors and niches made from sandstone can be dated to the 13th century, while th...