| width=15% | Foundation | width=5% | Image | width=30% | Communities & Provenance | width=20% | Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names | OnLine References & Location |
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| Athy Priory * | Dominican Friars founded 1253-7; dissolved 30 April 1539; rented to Martin Pelles 26 April 1540; refounded c.1622 by Fr Ross Mageoghegan; chapel enlarged 1864-7; dissolved mid-19th century; new church built and opened 17 March 1965; extant; old church demolished 1973 | St Peter, Martyr St Dominic ____________________ Bailr-atha-ai; Athai; Athies | [1] 52.9907°N -6.9834°W | |||||
| Athy Priory Hospital | Fratres Cruciferi founded after 1199 (1253?) by Richard de St Michael, Lord of Rhebane (during the reign of King John); dissolved 1540 | The Priory of Saint John; The Priory of Saint John and Saint Thomas of Cruciferi St Thomas the Martyr (from 13th century) | [2] 52.9925°N -6.9869°W | |||||
| Castledermot Friary | Franciscan Friars founded before 1247; dissolved 1540 | Disert-diarmuta; Tristle-dermot; Desert | 52.9103°N -6.835°W | |||||
| Castledermot Monastery | early monastic site, Gaelic monks founded 842 by the son of Aed Roin, King of Corcu Bascind; plundered by the Danes 842; burned 1106; probably continuing after 1111 | 52.9085°N -6.8373°W | ||||||
| Castledermot Priory | Knights Templar? (according to tradition) Fratres Cruciferi (re)founded before 1216 by Lord Walter de Ridlesford (during the reign of King John); dissolved 1540 St John's Tower is the only surviving remnant | Priory and Hospital of Saint John the Baptist | 52.9142°N -6.838°W | |||||
| Celbridge Abbey * | built 1697 by Bartholomew Van Homrigh, Lord Mayor of Dublin; St John of God Hospitallers operated as a care home | [3] 53.3367°N -6.5425°W | ||||||
| Clane Friary | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual founded 1258 by Gerald FitzMaurice FitzGerald, Lord of Offaly, purportedly buried here 1287; dissolved 1540; granted to a number of people 1541-2 for the use of Sir Thomas Luttrell; friars remained until monastery destroyed c.1606; restored 1647; dissolved c.1650 | Cloenath; Claenath; Claenad; Claona; Cleonad; Cloney; Cluain | [4] 53.2892°N -6.6829°W | |||||
| Clane Monastery | early monastic site, Gaelic monks founded c.800 by St Ailbe; probably continuing after 1111 | |||||||
| Clonagh Monastery ø | possible monastic site — order and period unknown land obtained by priests 1396 without the King's consent, and concealed from the King | 53.3995°N -6.9092°W (approx) | ||||||
| Cloncurry Friary | Carmelite Friars founded 1347 by John Roch (Roche), license granted by Edward III; dissolved 1539, church seized 30 April 1539; granted to William Dickson 1543; passed to Richard Slayne; passed to the Foster family; William Foster had purportedly been seized of the monastery by the time of his death 1602; convent restored by c.1737 | Cluain-conaire; Concurry | 53.2384°N -6.9532°W (possible) | |||||
| Cloncurry Monastery | early monastic site, reputedly founded by St Ninian (Mo-nenn) | |||||||
| Donaghmore Monastery | Patrician monks/Columban monks founded 6th century | Domnach-mor-maige-laudat | 53.3769°N -6.5531°W | |||||
| Dunmanoge Monastery | early monastic site, Gaelic monks church founded by Finnian of Clonard, land granted by Carbreus, King of Leinster; probably not continuing after 10th century | Mugna-moschenog; Mugna-helchan; Mugna-selchain? | 52.8952°N -6.9178°W | |||||
| Dunmurraghill Monastery | early monastic site, Gaelic monks church founded by St Patrick; probably not continuing after 10th century | Druim-urchaille; Droma-urchaille | 53.3434°N -6.7636°W (?) | |||||
| Graney Abbey | Augustinian nuns — Arroasian priory founded c.1200 by Walter de Riddlesford; raised to abbey status before 1276; dissolved 7 February 1539; granted to Leonard, Lord Grey; granted to Anthony St Leger 1542 | St Mary ____________________ Graine; Grane; Greyn | 52.9013°N -6.783°W | |||||
| Grangerosnolvan Monastery | nuns according to tradition; Cistercian monks grange of Baltinglass | Grange Nolven | ||||||
| Great Connell Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular dependent on Llanthony; founded 1202 by Meyler fitz Henry, Justiciar, buried here; dissolved 1540, before 24 November; granted to Edward Randolfe; granted to Sir Edward Butler; granted to Sir Nicholas White 1560; granted to Edmond Butler 1566 | St Mary and St David ____________________ Greatconnell; Monaster-Conghbala; Conal; Connayl | 53.1718°N -6.778°W | |||||
| Inchaquire ?Friary | Dominican Friars license granted 1488; possibly a vicarage of Athy between 1488 and 1627 | Intyma Kudir; Inseueyr | 53.0281°N -6.7928°W (approx) | |||||
| Kilberry 'Abbey' ø | supposed monastic site - order and period unknown; "abbey",[5] traditionally a nunnery; possible Knights Hospitaller with sisters attached | Cel-berra | 53.0346°N -7.0258°W | |||||
| Kilcock Monastery ø | supposed nuns — order and period unknown | Cell-cocha; Cell-coice; Cell-cork | 53.4014°N -6.6673°W? | |||||
| Kilcork Camera | Knights Templar founded 13th century; dissolved 1308; manor exchanged with Thomas Fitz John, Earl of Kildare 1318, rectory retained for the Knights Hospitaller | 53.0524°N -6.8914°W(?) | ||||||
| Kilcullen Abbey | Observant Franciscan Friars founded 1486 (1470[6]) by Roland FitzEustace, Baron of Portlester, buried here; dissolved before 30 April 1539, appurtenances seized, occupied by Thomas (Eustace), Lord of Kilcullen; expelled 1547; granted to Edmund Spenser 1582; 1640s | New Abbey; Cell-ciluinn; Ouen | 53.1278°N -6.7354°W | |||||
| Kildare Abbey | early monastic site, nuns; founded 5th century (c.430) by St Brigid; monks and nuns double monastery before 528; plundered a number of times; Augustinian nuns — Arroasian? founded after 1171?; episcopal diocesan cathedral built in the abbey grounds between 1223 and 1230, extant; dissolved 1540-1; farmed by Francis Cosby and Raymond Oge (FizGerald) 1448; granted to Anthony Deering 1585 | St Brigid | [7] 53.1581°N -6.9122°W | |||||
| Kildare — Grey Abbey | Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual founded c.1254 by the ancestors of the Earls of Kildare or 1260 by Gerald Fitz Maurice, Lord Offaly or William de Vescy; Observant Franciscan Friars refounded 1520; surrendered 30 April 1539; occupied by Philip FytzMores (Fitzmaurice); granted to Daniel Sutton 1543; destroyed 1547 and abandoned; reestablished 1621 dissolved c.1770 | 53.1531°N -6.9142°W | ||||||
| Kildare — White Abbey | Carmelite Friars founded 1290 by William de Vescy; dissolved April 1539, surrendered by the prior; granted to William Dickson; new church built 1884 | St Mary | [8] 53.1594°N -6.9168°W | |||||
| Killashee Monastery # | early monastic site, founded 5th century by St Patrick; plundered in raids by the Danes 1035; remains of non-monastic 15th-century round tower on site | Cell-ausaille; Cell-usaille; Kill-auxille; Kill-Osey; Kill-usaille | [9] 53.189°N -6.6721°W | |||||
| Killelan 'Abbey' | Knights Hospitaller hospital confirmed by Innocent III 1212 | 52.9637°N -6.8028°W | ||||||
| Killybegs Preceptory | Knights Hospitaller founded before 1212, confirmed by Innocent III dissolved before 1400 | Kilbegge; Kilbegs | 53.285°N -6.744°W | |||||
| Kilrush Cell | Augustinian Canons Regular cell dependent on Cartmel; founded c.1201; leased by Prior Rawson to Thomas Alen and Mary his wife 1527; dissolved before 1540; granted to Thomas, Earl of Ormond 1558 | Cell-rois; Kylros | 53.071°N -6.8684°W(?) | |||||
| Kilteel Preceptory | supposed early monastic site Knights Hospitaller founded before 1212 by Maurice FitzGerald, confirmed by Innocent III; dissolved before 1527 | Cell-cele-Croist; Kil-heel; Kil-hele; Kil-hill; Kylehale | 53.2328°N -6.5258°W (approx) | |||||
| Knocknacree Monastery | order, period and foundation unknown; formerly traces of a religious foundation[10] | Knocknacroith | 52.867°N -6.8178°W (approx) | |||||
| Leixlip Abbey ø≈ | land granted to St Catherine's, Dublin before 1224; reference to 'monastery' probably error for a chantry; rectory held by St Thomas's Abbey 1540 | The Blessed Virgin Mary; The Abbey Church of Saint Wolstan, Leixlip | ||||||
| Lully Monastery | early monastic site, founded before 584; Anchorites before 784 | Lilcach; Liolcaig; Lullymore | 53.2797°N -6.9428°W | |||||
| Maganey Monastery ø | purported early monastic site, founded 6th century? by St Abban, son of Cormac, King of Laigin | Mag-arnaide; Maghinemna; Moyarney | 52.9062°N -6.9257°W (approx) | |||||
| Monasterevin Monastery # | early monastic site, founded by St Emin, buried here; Cistercian monks Consecrated 27 October 1189 (1178?) dedicated to St Mary and St Benedict,[11] site granted and confirmed by Dermot O'Dempsey, King of Offaly; dissolved 1540?; granted to George, Lordd Audley; assigned to Adam Loftus; later to the family of the Earl of Drogheda; site now (thought to be) occupied by a stately home named 'Moore Abbey', in use as a hospice 1945–present (below) | Monaster-evan; Ros-glaisi; Ross-glass-na-muimnech; Rosglas; Rosea Vallis | 53.1356°N -7.0625°W | |||||
| Moone Abbey | early monastic site, founded 6th century, probably by St Colmcille, patron; purported medieval religious house — order unknown | Maein-Choluim-Chille; Maon-Choluim-Chille; Monmohenock; Mooney | 52.9794°N -6.8252°W | |||||
| Moone Friary ø | suggested Franciscan Friars founded 1258 by Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice — contemporary evidence lacking — possible confusion with Clane | |||||||
| Moore Abbey *, Monasterevin | Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary founded 1945; extant; stately home (thought to be) built on the site of Monasterevin Monastery (above), in use as a hospice | 53.1361°N -7.0629°W | ||||||
| Naas Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular founded before 1200? by a baron of Naas; hospital added; dissolved 1539, surrendered by Prior Thomas Poswyk 26 July 1539; granted to Thomas Alen of Dublin 20 April 1540; granted to Richard Mannering 1553; leased to Roger Finglas 1568 | St John the Baptist ____________________ Nas-na-rig; Nais; Nasse; Le Nas; Nasa; Nass; Asensis; Vas | 53.2199°N -6.6608°W | |||||
| Naas Austin Friary | Augustinian Friars founded 14th century? purportedly by a White, or a Cullen of Dublin; dissolved 1539-40; rented by John Sutton after 1540; owned by Hugh Molton 1580-1; leased to Nicholas Aylmer, for fifty years, in 1584 | 'The Monastery of the Moat' | ||||||
| Naas Priory | Dominican Friars founded 1355-6, licensed by Edward III c.1356; dissolved 1540; granted to Robert Eustace and others 15 June 1542, for the use of Sir Thomas Luttrell; later assigned to John Travers; now at Newbridge | St Eustace | ||||||
| Naas Hospitallers | Knights Hospitaller frankhouse; held by James Tyrrell 1540; held by Walter Hope of Mullingar 1578, under lease granted by Prior Massingberd of Kilmainham | |||||||
| Old Kilcullen Friary ø | purported Observant Franciscan Friars[12] p.38 — erroneous reference[13] | |||||||
| Old Kilcullen Monastery | early monastic site, chapel and cloister founded 5th century by St Patrick; plundered by Amlaibh from Dublin 938, 939, 944 burned 1114 | Cill-Cuillind | [14] 53.1079°N -6.7606°W | |||||
| Naas — Millbrook Monastery | early monastic site, founded by St Fechin of Fore, land granted by the King of Leinster | Tulachfobhair | ||||||
| Naas Nunnery | early monastic site, nuns, founded by St Patrick | |||||||
| Oughterard Monastery | early monastic site, nuns, founded 6th-7th century by St Brigid (not Brigid of Kildare); church and round tower largely destroyed by Vikings in 995; northwest of Kill | Uachtar-aird | [15] 53.2778°N -6.5655°W | |||||
| Rathbride Camera | Knights Templar founded 13th century; dissolved 1308; passed to Knights Hospitallers, but exchanged with Thomas Fitx John, Earl of Kildare 1318, rectory retained by Hospitallers | Rathbrigte | ||||||
| St Simon's Friary near Naas | Carmelite Friars — possibly Cloncurry | |||||||
| St Wolstan's Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular — Victorine founded c.1205 by Richard, first prior, and Adam de Hereford; dissolved 1536, suppressed 15 September; granted to John Alen, Lord Chancellor, 1 December 1536, last prior allowed to remain in residence for life | Scala Caeli | 53.3445°N -6.5184°W | |||||
| Taghadoe Monastery | early monastic site, founded by St Tua (Ulstan the Silent) | Teach-tua; Teach-tua | [16] 53.3533°N -6.613°W | |||||
| Timolin Monastery# | early monastic site | Tomolin; Tech-moling; Themolyngbeg; Tynolingbeg; Tomolyng | ||||||
| Timolin Priory | Augustinian nuns — Arroasian founded c.1199 by Robert, son of Richard, Lord of Norrach; church and chapels granted by William de Piro, Bishop of Glendalough, confirmed by Henry, Archbishop of Dublin 1220; dissolved 1538; held by Edmund Eustas from 14 January 1538; granted to Henry Harrington 1581; part granted to Terence (Tirlaughe) O'Brien 1594 | St Mary | 52.9843°N -6.8084°W | |||||
| Tully Abbey | Knights Hospitaller founded before 1212, confirmed by Innocent III 1212; dissolved before 1527; granted to David Sutton 1538 | Black Abbey | 53.1453°N -6.9041°W | |||||
| Yeomanstown Friary | Dominican Friars — from Naas founded after 1666, transferred from Naas; transferred to Newbridge 1756 |