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,
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,
King John’s Castle, on the south side of Thomond Bridge head, built in 1210 “to dominate the bridge and watch towards Thomond”,
Also known as King John’s Castle, and is the last surviving example of the many fortified houses in the town of Naas.
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.
St Mary’s Collegiate Church is one of the oldest churches in the country and occupies a site devoted to religious worship since early Christian times.
St. Brigid’s Cathedral, most recently rebuilt in the 19th century, stands on the original site of the nunnery founded by St.
The Magdalene Tower was the belfry tower of the once extensive Dominican Friary founded here about 1224 by Lucas de Netterville,
Founded by William Marshall the Younger, for the Dominican Friars in 1225, the Black Abbey was also known as the Convent of the One and Undivided Trinity.
According to Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary “A monastery for Dominican or Black Friars, called also Friars Preachers, who were introduced into Ireland in 1226,
Built in 1227 by King Henry III of England, populated by up to 1000 people in it’s heyday. Destroyed, ruined and forgotten in less that 150 years,
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