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Balally Monastery ~ supposed Early Christian monastic site (Irish: Baile Amhlaoibh, meaning 'the town of Olaf') may commemorate a Viking saint Baldongan Monastery: supposed monastic site of friary & nunnery within the walls of the 13th-century Baldongan Castle - order and period unknown; traditionally Knights Templar preceptory Baldungan
supposed early monastery dissolved before 11th century ... This is a list of the monastic houses in County Carlow, Ireland. Acaun ... Dublin; founded 1151 by Dermot ...
The monastic movement, headed by abbots, took hold in the mid 6th century, and by 700 Ireland was at least nominally a Christian country, with the church fully part of Irish society. The status of ecclesiastics was regulated by secular law, and many leading ecclesiastics came from aristocratic Irish families.
The important house of Abbey of Saint Mary was founded in Dublin at that time, first under the Benedictine Rule, then passing to the Cistercians. Not only was the Irish Church transformed in that 12th century by new organisation and new arrivals from abroad, but Ireland's political scene was changed permanently by the coming of the Normans and ...
early monastic site ... Dublin founded c.1183 (between 1183 and 1186) ... Map link to lists of monastic houses in Ireland by county
The buildings alone covered one and a half acres, [27] and would have followed the pattern of an English Augustinian friary, with a number of individual buildings around a courtyard, including a church, cloisters [28] leading to a dining room, dormitory buildings, a kitchen, the Prior's house, with a building set aside for sick and elderly ...
Cornmarket, Dublin: the heart of the earliest settlement. Dublin is Ireland's oldest known settlement. It is also the largest and most populous urban centre in the country, a position it has held continuously since first rising to prominence in the 10th century (with the exception of a brief period in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when it was temporarily eclipsed by Belfast).
early monastic site, founded 6th century (during the time of St Colmcille and Ita) by Farannan, bishop Domnach-mor-maige-femen 52°26′44″N 7°43′17″W / 52.445448°N 7.721455°W / 52.445448; -7.721455 ( Donaghmore Monastery (approx.)