errew abbey

Errew Abbey was founded by the Barretts for the Augustinian Canons in 1413. The church is a long rectangular building; although much of the dressed stonework has fallen, there are some good trefoil windows remaining, as well as a piscina. The ground floor of the domestic buildings is preserved on the eastern wing of the cloister, but otherwise little of these buildings remain. the church, however, antedates the foundation and is of 13th century date. Templenagalliaghdoo: Nearby is a small rectangular oratory which probably stands on the site of the earliest monastery founded here by St. Tighernan in the 6th century. The name of the oratory - Templenagalliaghdoo or 'Church of the Black Nun' - suggests that this may have been a convent. The present entrance is in the south wall, but as the church has been greatly reconstructed, it may have originality been in the west wall. A small annexe was added later to the north side enclosing what may have been either a well or the grave of the founder.