Abbeydorney Abbey

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Abbeydorney Cistercian Abbey
Abbeydorney Abbey
Abbeydorney Abbey
location IrelandIreland Ireland
County Kerry
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 13 ″  N , 9 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 13 ″  N , 9 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  W
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		349
Patronage St. Mary
founding year 1154
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1537
Mother monastery Monasteranenagh Abbey
Primary Abbey Clairvaux Monastery

Daughter monasteries

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Abbeydorney Abbey (or O'Dorney Abbey , Irish Mainistir Ó dTorna , common Latin name: Kyrie eleison, probably due to the location in Kerry) is a former Cistercian abbey in County Kerry in the Republic of Ireland . The ruined monastery is nine kilometers north of Tralee in the north of the village of Abbeydorney .

history

The monastery was founded in 1154 and was a daughter monastery of Monasteranenagh Abbey (Nenay Abbey). Thus it belonged to the filiation of the Primary Abbey Clairvaux Monastery . Christian O'Conarchy, Abbot of Mellifont , retired to the monastery and was buried there in 1186. In 1227 the monastery was involved in the Mellifont conspiracy and its abbot was deposed. The monastery was dissolved in the time of Henry VIII in 1537, but monks stayed in the monastery until 1577. The property passed to Edmund Lord Kerry, who received the title of Baron O'Dorney.

Buildings and plant

The ruins of the monastery church

The cruciform church from the 15th century with the remains of the west tower and the enclosure building have been preserved in a ruinous condition. The monastery grounds are now used as a cemetery.

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