List of monastic houses in County Carlow

Overview

In this article smaller establishments such as cells and notable monastic granges (particularly those with resident monks) and camerae of the military orders of monks (Templars and Hospitallers) are included. The numerous monastic hospitals per se are not included here unless at some time the foundation had, or was purported to have, the status or function of an abbey, priory, friary or preceptory/commandery.

Article layout

Communities/provenance: shows the status and communities existing at each establishment, together with such dates as have been established as well as the fate of the establishment after dissolution, and the current status of the site.

Formal Name or Dedication: shows the formal name of the establishment or the person in whose name the church is dedicated, where known.

Alternative Names: some of the establishments have had alternative names over the course of time. In order to assist in text-searching such alternatives in name or spelling have been provided.

Monastic Glossary: following the listing, provides links to articles on the particular monastic orders as well as other terms which appear in the listing.


Abbreviations and Key

The sites listed are ruins or fragmentary
remains unless indicated thus:
* current monastic function
+ current non-monastic ecclesiastic function
^ current non-ecclesiastic function
= remains incorporated into later structure
# no identifiable trace of the monastic foundation remains
~ exact site of monastic foundation unknown
ø possibly no such monastic foundation at location
¤ no such monastic foundation
≈ identification ambiguous or confused

Locations with names in italics indicate probable duplication (misidentification with another location)
or non-existent foundations (either erroneous reference or proposed foundation never implemented).
Trusteeship denoted as follows:
NIEA Scheduled Monument (NI)
NM National Monument (ROI)
C.I. Church of Ireland
R.C. Roman Catholic Church

Alphabetical listing of establishments

Foundation Image Communities & Provenance Formal Name or Dedication
& Alternative Names 		OnLine References & Location
Acaun Monastery #, Rathvilly Parish supposed monastic site — order and period unknown 52°50′31″N 6°43′02″W / 52.8419725°N 6.7172813°W / 52.8419725; -6.7172813 (Acaun — supposed monastic foundation (approx.)) (approx)
Agha Monastery Gaelic monks
founded 6th century by St Fintan;
possibly not surviving after 10th century		 Achad-finglass;
Achadfinglass;
Achad-Urghlais;
Augha 		[1][2]
52°43′00″N 6°55′11″W / 52.716628°N 6.919804°W / 52.716628; -6.919804 (Agha Monastery (approx.)) (approx)
Aghade Priory Augustinian — Arroasian nuns
dependent on Dublin;
cell of St Mary de Hogges, Dublin;
founded 1151 by Dermot mac Murchard, King of Leinster;
dissolved before 1500?		 Athaddy;
Athade;
Athad;
Aghadh;
Aghade Nunnery;
Ath-fhadhat 		[3][4]
52°45′36″N 6°44′12″W / 52.7600091°N 6.7365932°W / 52.7600091; -6.7365932 (Aghade Priory)
Athkiltan ~ Knights Templar manor, possibly located in County Carlow Takyltan
Ballymoon Preceptory ø supposed (though dubious) establishment of Knights Templar
purportedly founded c.1300
no record of preceptory found		 Bally MacWilliam-roe;
Bally-M'William-Row;
Baile-mic-Uilliam 		[2]
52°42′00″N 6°54′26″W / 52.7000541°N 6.9071388°W / 52.7000541; -6.9071388 (Ballymoon Preceptory (supposed))
Carlow Monastery Gaelic monks
founded before 601-2 by St Comgal of Bangor, site granted by Cormac, King of Ui Bairrche		 Cathair-lach;
Ceithiorlach 		52°50′03″N 6°55′32″W / 52.834299°N 6.9255066°W / 52.834299; -6.9255066 (Carlow Monastery)
Poor Clare Monastery Carlow,
Graiguecullen		 Monastery of Perpetual Adoration
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Poor Clares
founded 19th century 		[5]
52°50′11″N 6°56′27″W / 52.836386°N 6.9407362°W / 52.836386; -6.9407362 (Poor Clare Monastery, Carlow)
Clonmore Monastery Gaelic monks
founded 6th century by St Mogue;
possibly not surviving after 10th century;
church burnt 1040		 Cluain-mor-maedoc;
Clonemore 		[6]
52°49′38″N 6°34′10″W / 52.8272595°N 6.5693307°W / 52.8272595; -6.5693307 (Clonmore Monastery)
Domnach-feic Monastery early monastic site, founded 5th century (in the time of St Patrick) by St Fiace Domnach-feich
Dunleckney Preceptory # purported Knights Templar
founded 1300;
dissolved 1308[notes 1]		 Leighlinbridge Preceptory? 52°42′29″N 6°57′13″W / 52.7080633°N 6.9536591°W / 52.7080633; -6.9536591 (Dunleckney Preceptory)
Kilfortchearn Monastery early monastic site, purportedly founded 5th century (in the time of St Patrick) by St Fortchern, bishop Cell-foirtcheirn;
Ui Drona
Killerig Preceptory Knights Templar
founded before 1212 (in the reign of King John) by Gilbert de Borard;
Knights Hospitaller
dissolved 1540; granted to the wife of Gerard Aylmer 1590;
leased to James Sherlock of Waterford		 The Preceptory of St John the Baptist
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Killargy;
Killarge;
Friarstown 		52°50′46″N 6°47′34″W / 52.8460387°N 6.7928714°W / 52.8460387; -6.7928714 (Killerig Preceptory)
Leighlin Abbey + Gaelic monks
founded c.600 by St Gobban;
episcopal diocesan cathedral;
destroyed by fire c.1060;
new cathedral built 12th-13th century; extant;
secular canons purportedly instituted at the cathedral by Bishop John Mulgan (Seaán Ó Maolagáin) c.1422;
dissolved 1567		 Old Leighlin Abbey;
Leth-glenn 		[2]
52°44′10″N 7°01′32″W / 52.7360192°N 7.0256493°W / 52.7360192; -7.0256493 (Leighlin Abbey)
Leighlin Friary ≈ Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regular — erroneous reference to the friary of Bakil, Wicklow[notes 2]
Leighlin Priory Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian
founded after 1163? at the instance of St Lawrence O'Toole (dubious reference to 9th century foundation by Burchard, son of Gurmund, a Norwegian);
dissolved c.1392;
petition for suppression and appropriation to the cathedral chapter granted by the Pope to the Bishop (Thomas Fleming) 1432		 St Stephen
Leighlinbridge Priory Carmelite monks
founded 1265-72 (before the death of Henry III) by a member of the Carew family;
dissolved before 1541; converted into a fort;
restored, convent in existence c.1737		 Priory of St Mary [2]
52°44′08″N 6°58′42″W / 52.7355121°N 6.9784641°W / 52.7355121; -6.9784641 (Leighlinbridge Monastery)
Leighlinbridge Preceptory ≈ Knights Templar
apparently same as Dunleckney Preceptory (supra)
Lorum Monastery Gaelic monks
patron St Laseroam (Molaise)		 Leamhdruim 52°39′49″N 6°55′44″W / 52.6634839°N 6.9289666°W / 52.6634839; -6.9289666 (Lorum Monastery)
St Mullin's Monastery Gaelic monks
founded 7th century; (NM)		 Achad Cainida;
Tech-moling;
Thamoling;
Temolyn;
Shymylyng;
Thacineling;
Thacmoling 		[7]
52°29′20″N 6°55′39″W / 52.488889°N 6.9275558°W / 52.488889; -6.9275558 (St Mullin's Monastery)
St Mullin's Abbey early monastic site, founded 632 by St Molling, site purportedly granted by St Aidan, Bishop of Ferns;
purported Augustinian Canons Regular (no documentation of foundation);
plundered and burnt before 1138; (NM) 		[7][8]
52°29′20″N 6°55′39″W / 52.488889°N 6.9275558°W / 52.488889; -6.9275558 (St Mullin's Abbey)
St Mullins Friary Franciscan Friars, license granted 1414 — no evidence foundation ever implemented
Tullow Abbey # Augustinian Friars
founded 1314 by Simon Lumbard and Hugh Talun who granted site;
dissolved 1541?; granted to Thomas, Earl of Ormond, December 1557		 Tully;
Tullagh;
Tealach-fortchern;
Tuluch-ua-bfeidhlimidh;
Tullowphelim;
Tullyfelim;
Laghia;
The Black Abbey 		[9]
52°48′11″N 6°43′58″W / 52.8030209°N 6.7327309°W / 52.8030209; -6.7327309 (Tully Abbey)
Tullow Friary Carmelite Friars, given in state papers and listed 1645 — no other evidence of foundation
Tullow Monastery # early monastic site, founded 5th century?

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Notes

  1. ↑ Dunleckney — Knights Templar preceptory existence: Lewis, Topological Dictionary of Ireland (1837), i, p.584
  2. ↑ 'Leighlin Friary' — listed by Louis Augustin Alemand, Monasticum Hibernicum, translated and edited by John Stevens, 1722, p.252

References

  1. ↑
  2. 1 2 3 4 Topographical Dictionary of Ireland: Samuel Lewis, 1837: Carlow Town - From Ireland - Irish Ancestry, Genealogy & Family History Archived November 23, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Monasticon | Monastic Matrix
  4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20100913081016/http://www.ballonvillage.com/Aghade%20church.htm. Archived from the original on September 13, 2010. Retrieved May 6, 2014. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ http://www.poorclarescarlow.ie/journey/Invitation.htm
  6. ↑ Monastic Sites In Ireland - GoIreland
  7. 1 2 St Mullins
  8. ↑ Monastic Sites In Ireland - GoIreland
  9. ↑ Tullow town, Carlow

See also

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