1139 – St Mary’s Abbey Chapter House, Mary’s Abbey, Dublin
In the early 1880s, seven feet beneath street level, the Chapter House of St Mary’s Abbey was rediscovered under a bakery.
1142 – Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth
Mellifont was the first Cistercian monastery to be established in Ireland. Founded in 1142 by St. Malachy, the monastery was consecrated in 1157 at a great national synod attended by seventeen bishops and the High King.
1150 – Baltinglass Abbey, Co. Wicklow
Baltinglass Abbey is one of the most important Cistercian abbeys of Leinster. and was founded in 1148 by Dermot McMurrough, king of Leinster.
1180 – Jerpoint Abbey, Co. Kilkenny
Jerpoint Abbey is a ruined Cistercian abbey, constructed by around 1180, by Donogh O’Donoghoe Mac Gilla Patraic, the King of Osraige.
1190 – Knockmoy Abbey, Abbeyknockmoy, Co. Galway
The Cistercian Abbey of Knockmoy was founded in 1189-90 by the King of Connacht (Cathal Crovdearg O Connor, who was buried there in 1244) in the years 1189-1190.
1193 – Grey Abbey, Greyabbey, Co. Down
Grey Abbey was founded in 1193, by John de Courcy’s wife, Affreca as a daughter house of Holmcultram Abbey in Cumbria.
1195 – Corcomroe Abbey, Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare
Officially “Sancta Maria de Petra Fertili” or “Saint Mary of the Fertile Rock”. Corcomroe Abbey is sited a few miles from Ballyvaughan within sight of the coast.
1207 – Duiske Abbey, Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny
Irish Builder and Engineer “IN our last number we gave a sketch of the ruins of St. Mary’s Church, in the Abbey of Duiske,
1218 – Boyle Abbey, Co. Roscommon
Boyle Abbey was established in 1161 under the patronage of the MacDermott’s as a daughter house of Mellifont Abbey and was completed in 1218.
1272 – Hore Abbey, Cashel, Co. Tipperary
Hore Abbey is a ruined Cistercan monastery near the Rock of Cashel, County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland. Hore Abbey is distinctive among Irish Cistercian monasteries in that the cloister lies to the north.
