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  2. List of monastic houses in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Devenish Monastery early monastic site, founded before 564 or 571 by St Molaise (Laisre) Culdees from 10th century Gola Priory Dominican Friars founded after 1660 by Fr John MacManus, obtaining land from Lord Enniskillen The Priory of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary _____ Gaula: Iniseo Monastery early monastic site, founded before 777 ...

  3. Monasterboice - Wikipedia

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    The Monasterboice (Irish: Mainistir Bhuithe) ruins are the remains of an early Christian monastic settlement in County Louth in Ireland, north of Drogheda.The ruins are a national monument of Ireland and also give their name to the local village and to a civil parish of the same name.

  4. Clonmacnoise - Wikipedia

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    Clonmacnoise Cathedral from the south-east (centre and left), Temple Doolin and Temple Hurpan (right) and Temple Melaghlin (behind, covered) Clonmacnoise (Irish: Cluain Mhic Nóis) is a ruined monastery situated in County Offaly in Ireland on the River Shannon south of Athlone, founded in 544 by Saint Ciarán, a young man from Rathcroghan, County Roscommon. [2]

  5. Insular monasticism - Wikipedia

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    Saint Declan (fl. 350–450 AD) founded a monastery at Ardmore, [63] possibly the oldest Christian settlement in Ireland. A contemporary was Ailbe , whose Vita , written c. 750, says that he preached Christianity in Munster before the arrival of St. Patrick, and founded a monastery at Emly .

  6. History of Christianity in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    The introduction of Christianity to Ireland dates to sometime before the 5th century, presumably in interactions with Roman Britain. Christian worship had reached pagan Ireland around 400 AD. It is often misstated that Saint Patrick brought the faith to Ireland, but it was already present on the island before Patrick arrived. Monasteries were ...

  7. List of monastic houses in County Tipperary - Wikipedia

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    Numerous Christian monasteries have existed in the territory that is now County Tipperary in Ireland, some founded in the Celtic Christian period and more after the reforms of Saint Malachy. The Reformation in Ireland saw the dissolution of the monasteries , but after the easing of the Penal Laws against Roman Catholicism new ones were opened.

  8. History of Ireland (400–795) - Wikipedia

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    The early medieval history of Ireland, often referred to as Early Christian Ireland, spans the 5th to 8th centuries, from the gradual emergence out of the protohistoric period (Ogham inscriptions in Primitive Irish, mentions in Greco-Roman ethnography) to the beginning of the Viking Age.

  9. Mungret Abbey - Wikipedia

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    Mungret was an early monastic site, founded before AD 551 by Saint Nessan (Neasán) the Deacon. At one point there may have been as many as 1,500 monks and six churches operating in competition to attract followers. John O'Donovan claimed a fourth-century date, predating Saint Patrick. [5]