1265 – Augustinian Abbey, Ballintubber, Co. Mayo
A monastery was founded here for the Augustinians in 1216, but was largely rebuilt in 1265 after a fire.
A monastery was founded here for the Augustinians in 1216, but was largely rebuilt in 1265 after a fire.
Cromwell’s artillery left very little of the 13th century Castletown castle in the 1650s.
Illustrated as largely intact in 1794, the castle is now much decayed.
“Abbey of Ballyhaunes, Co. Mayo” copper engraved print published in Francis Grose’s Antiquities of England and Wales,
A Franciscan friary founded in 1353, by William O’Kelly, Lord of Ui Maine.
The first monastery founded here by St. Baeten in the late 7th century no longer exists.
One of the finest and best preserved Franciscan monasteries in Ireland,
According to Lewis’s Topographical Survey of Ireland, “O’Conor Roe erected a castle here in 1406,
The present day abbey ruins date from the fifteenth century. Nearby is another ruin which was likely residential accommodation for the priests of Fenagh.
Moyne Abbey is one of most impressive ecclesiastical ruins in Mayo and a National Monument.