Abbeys and priories in Northern Ireland is a link page for any abbey, priory, friary or other religious house in Northern Ireland
Abbreviations and Key
The sites listed are ruins unless indicated thus:-
| * indicates current monastic function
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+ indicates current non-monastic ecclesiastic function
| ^ indicates current non-ecclesiastic function
| # indicates no identifiable trace of the monastic foundation remains
| ~ indicates exact site of monastic foundation unknown
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Trusteeship denoted as follows:-
Other abbreviations:-
| trns = transferred
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rmv = removed
| c = circa (about)
| ante = before
| post = after
| C.I. = Church of Ireland
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Formal Name |
| Bonamargy Friary , Ballycastle,
| Franciscan c1500, burned 1584(1589), repaired & re-occupied 1626-1642, restored 1931 (NM)
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| Carrickfergus Abbey #
| Franciscan 1248, Observant -Franciscan 1497-suppression , used as a munitions store, rebuilt as Joymont House, 1618
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| Glenarm Friary
| Franciscan, site now occupied by St. Patrick's C.I. church
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| Church Island monastery , Lough Beg
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| Church Island Abbey , Lough Beg
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| Portglenone Abbey Church *
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| Templepatrick preceptory #
| town said to be named for a Knights Templar foundation
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| Armagh Friary #
| Franciscan 1263/4-1551
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| Kilnasaggart monastery #
| site occupied by the Kilnasaggart Stone
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| Tynan Abbey
| originally a mansion named 'Fairview'.
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| Ballykelly monastery ?
| site now occupied by remains of a church destroyed 1641
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| Derry monastery , Londonderry
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Derry: possible Franciscan Friary, traditionally in Waterside and Ardmore area
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| Bangor Abbey
| latterly Franciscan, site now incorporated into C.I. church
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| Comber Abbey #
| Cistercian from Whitland 1200-1543, on the site of an earlier monastery founded by St Patrick, site now occupied by St Mary's C.I. church
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| Downpatrick monastery #
| within the dun or rath on which the C.I. Cathedral now stands
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| Downpatrick Friary #
| Franciscan 1235, burned 1316, conventual -Reformation, Observant -Franciscan 1627-1650s
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| Greyabbey Abbey
| Cistercian, rebuilt and served for a time as a parish church
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| Inch Abbey
| Cistercian, on the site of an earlier monastery
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| Magheralin monastery
| site occupied by remains of 15th-C church
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| Movilla Abbey
| site occupied by 13-15th-C church
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| Nendrum Abbey , Mahee Island (Strangford Lough)
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| Newry monastery
| Patrician
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| Newry Abbey
| Cistercian
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| Newtownards Friary
| Dominican
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| Portaferry monastery #
| site thought to be now occupied by two small churches
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| Devenish Island Priory
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| Lisgoole Abbey #
| Augustinian Canons Regular c1145-1583, Franciscan 1583-1598, 1616-ante1811, built on site of early monastery (below)
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| The Abbey Church of Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Mary, Lisgoole
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| Lisgoole monastery #
| site later occupied by Augustinian priory (above)
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| The monastery of Saint Aid , Lisgoole
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| Devenish Island Abbey , Lough Erne
| Augustinian
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| The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Devenish Island
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| White Island monastery ?
| attempts made to identify this location as being Eo-inis monastery
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| Ardboe monastery
| 10thC
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| Clogher monastery
| site now occupied by C.I. cathedral
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| Donaghmore monastery
| ancient monastery (NM)
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| Dromore Abbey
| Cistercian, said to be on site of ancient nunnery
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| Dromore Friary ~
| Franciscan 1637-c1717
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| Dungannon Friary
| Franciscan 1687-1817
| Donaghmore Friary
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| Errigal Keeroge monastery
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| Priory of Our Lady of Benburb *
| Servite, a mansion in the demesne of Benburb Castle
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Strabane: some evidence of a small Franciscan Friary east of the town 1660s-18thC
See also
