List of monastic houses in County Carlow

This is a list of the monastic houses in County Carlow, Ireland.

FoundationImageCommunities & provenanceFormal name or dedication & alternative names !width=10%|References & location Acaun Monastery #, supposed monastic site — order and period unknown| (approx) Agha Monastery Gaelic monksfounded 6th century by St Fintan;possibly not surviving after 10th century Achad-finglass;Achadfinglass;Achad-Urghlais;Augha |Topographical Dictionary of Ireland: Samuel Lewis, 1837: Carlow Town - From Ireland - Irish Ancestry, Genealogy & Family History (approx) Aghade Priory Augustinian — Arroasian nunsdependent on Dublin;cell of St Mary de Hogges, Dublin;founded 1151 by Dermot mac Murchard, King of Leinster;dissolved before 1500? Athaddy;Athade;Athad;Aghadh;Aghade Nunnery;Ath-fhadhat |Monasticon | Monastic Matrix Athkiltan ~ Knights Templar manor, possibly located in County Carlow Takyltan | Ballymoon Preceptory ø supposed (though dubious) establishment of Knights Templarpurportedly founded c.1300no record of preceptory found Bally MacWilliam-roe;Bally-M'William-Row;Baile-mic-Uilliam | Carlow Monastery Gaelic monksfounded before 601-2 by St Comgal of Bangor, site granted by Cormac, King of Ui Bairrche Cathair-lach;Ceithiorlach | Poor Clare Monastery Carlow, Monastery of Perpetual Adoration____________________Poor Claresfounded 19th century | Clonmore Monastery Gaelic monksfounded 6th century by St Mogue;possibly not surviving after 10th century;church burnt 1040 Cluain-mor-maedoc;Clonemore |Monastic Sites In Ireland - GoIreland Domnach-feic Monastery early monastic site, founded 5th century (in the time of St Patrick) by St Fiace Domnach-feich | Dunleckney Preceptory # purported Knights Templarfounded 1300;dissolved 1308Dunleckney — Knights Templar preceptory existence: Lewis, Topological Dictionary of Ireland (1837), i, p.584 Leighlinbridge Preceptory? | Kilfortchearn Monastery early monastic site, purportedly founded 5th century (in the time of St Patrick) by St Fortchern, bishop Cell-foirtcheirn;Ui Drona | Killerig Preceptory Knights Templarfounded before 1212 (in the reign of King John) by Gilbert de Borard;Knights Hospitallerdissolved 1540; granted to the wife of Gerard Aylmer 1590;leased to James Sherlock of Waterford The Preceptory of St John the Baptist____________________Killargy;Killarge;Friarstown | Leighlin Abbey + Gaelic monksfounded c.600 by St Gobban;episcopal diocesan cathedral;destroyed by fire c.1060;new cathedral built 12th-13th century; extant;secular canons purportedly instituted at the cathedral by Bishop John Mulgan (Seaán Ó Maolagáin) c.1422;dissolved 1567 Old Leighlin Abbey;Leth-glenn | Leighlin Friary ≈ Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regular — erroneous reference to the friary of Bakil, Wicklow'Leighlin Friary' — listed by Louis Augustin Alemand, Monasticum Hibernicum, translated and edited by John Stevens, 1722, p.252 Leighlin Priory Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasianfounded after 1163? at the instance of St Lawrence O'Toole (dubious reference to 9th century foundation by Burchard, son of Gurmund, a Norwegian);dissolved c.1392;petition for suppression and appropriation to the cathedral chapter granted by the Pope to the Bishop (Thomas Fleming) 1432 St Stephen | Leighlinbridge Priory Carmelite monksfounded 1265-72 (before the death of Henry III) by a member of the Carew family;dissolved before 1541; converted into a fort;restored, convent in existence c.1737 Priory of St Mary | Leighlinbridge Preceptory ≈ Knights Templarapparently same as Dunleckney Preceptory (supra)| Lorum Monastery Gaelic monkspatron St Laseroam (Molaise) Leamhdruim | St Mullin's Monastery Gaelic monksfounded 7th century; (NM) Achad Cainida;Tech-moling;Thamoling;Temolyn;Shymylyng;Thacineling;Thacmoling |St Mullins St Mullin's Abbey early monastic site, founded 632 by St Molling, site purportedly granted by St Aidan, Bishop of Ferns;purported Augustinian Canons Regular (no documentation of foundation);plundered and burnt before 1138; (NM) |Monastic Sites In Ireland - GoIreland St Mullins Friary Franciscan Friars, license granted 1414 — no evidence foundation ever implemented | Tullow Abbey # Augustinian Friarsfounded 1314 by Simon Lumbard and Hugh Talun who granted site;dissolved 1541?; granted to Thomas, Earl of Ormond, December 1557 Tully;Tullagh;Tealach-fortchern;Tuluch-ua-bfeidhlimidh;Tullowphelim;Tullyfelim;Laghia;The Black Abbey |Tullow town, Carlow Tullow Friary Carmelite Friars, given in state papers and listed 1645 — no other evidence of foundation | Tullow Monastery # early monastic site, founded 5th century? |

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See also List of monastic houses in Ireland List of National Monuments in County Carlow List of country houses in County Carlow