Moyne Abbey
54°12′08″N 9°10′37″W / 54.202234°N 9.177070°W
Mainistir na Maighne | |
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Monastery information | |
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Order | Franciscans |
Established | c.1455 |
Disestablished | 1590 |
Architecture | |
Status | Inactive |
Site | |
Public access | Yes |
Official name | Moyne Abbey |
Reference no. | 103 |
Moyne Abbey (Irish: Mainistir na Maighne)[1] is a ruined medieval Franciscan friary in Killala, County Mayo, Ireland. Founded at some point before 1455, the abbey was suppressed in 1590.
History
It was founded before the year (1455) by Fr Nehemias O'Donoghue, who was the provincial vicar at the time, and consecrated in 1462.[2] It is located north of Ballina on the west side of Killala Bay on the old Ballina or "French" road. Like its neighbour, Rosserk Friary, it was burnt by Sir Richard Bingham, Elizabeth I of England's governor of Connacht, in 1590 in Reformationist zeal. It’s believed friars continued to reside there until about 1800.[3]
The friary was built in the late Irish Gothic style and has extensive ruins, consisting of a church and domestic buildings situated around a central cloister. Its west doorway is a seventeenth insertion. Its east window displays fine switchline tracery.[citation needed]
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See also
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References
- ^ "Mainistir na Maighne/Moyne Abbey". logainm.ie. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- ^ O'Donoghue, Rod (July 2002). "Some abbeys and monasteries with O'Donoghue connections". The O'Donoghue Society Journal: 4–9.
- ^ "Moyne Abbey", Discover Ireland, Failte Ireland
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