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Limerick Monaster ne Callow Duffe ø~ nuns — (probable misinterpretation) probably Limerick Priory: Limerick Preceptory? ø: Knights Templar or Knights Hospitaller probable Frank House Luimneach; Lumniac; Limbricen: Lough Gur, ø near Loghgir: purported Franciscan Friars: probably Friarstown (Ballynabrahrair) Luddenbeg Monastery ø
The Cistercian Abbey of Woney (Irish, Mainistir Uaithne), also written Wotheny or Owney, [1] [2] on the banks of the Mulkear River in Abington, County Limerick, was founded in 1205 when Theobald Walter (le Botiller), brother of Hubert Walter (Archbishop of Canterbury), [3] granted the whole "theodum" (believed to be an error, which should have ...
Glenstal Abbey is a Catholic Benedictine monastery of the Congregation of the Annunciation located in Murroe, County Limerick, Ireland. It is dedicated to Saint Joseph and Saint Columba . In July 2024, Columba McCann was elected to serve as the seventh abbot of the community.
Sports venues in County Limerick (2 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in County Limerick" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Glin (Irish: An Gleann, meaning 'the glen') [2] is a village in the northwest of County Limerick, Ireland. It is on the south shore of the River Shannon's estuary, on the N69 road between Foynes and Tarbert. The population of the village at the 2022 census was 644. [1]
One of the earliest recorded nunneries in Ireland, [5] it is first mentioned in 1298, and was founded on land donated by John FitzThomas of Connello (who died in 1261). [4]: 43 fn.3 While there are few details, it appears in court and land records over the succeeding centuries, and at Dissolution of the Monasteries during the Reformation in Ireland, in 1541, a valuation is given.
This monastery was founded in 1148 by Toirdelbhach mac Diarmaida Ua Briain for Cistercians from Mellifont. The name means "Monastery of the Fair." [4] [5] The buildings were possibly completed by Domnall Mór Ua Briain in the late 12th century. The monastery was made subject to Margam Abbey after the conspiracy of
By the late 17th century the castle had been abandoned and the FitzGerald family moved into a thatched longhouse adjacent to the castle. John Bateman FitzGerald, 23rd Knight of Glin married Margaretta Maria Fraunceis Gwyn in the 1780s and used her dowry to build a new home in the Georgian style.