Ardaneer

Ardaneer ( Irish Ard Inbhir ; Ardimur) was a subsidiary of the Benedictine monastery Glastonbury (Somerset) in Ireland. Ardimur is also read as Ardinuir or Ardiniur, Hodder Westropp lists the form Ardinowyr. Ardaneer and Kilcommon (Co. Tipperary) were the only Irish foundations of Glastonbury Abbey in England . Kilcommon (Kilcumin) was donated by Philip of Worcester (Philippus de Wigornia), the Constable of Ireland under Henry II (England) , to Ardaneer in Ocunild around 1200 by Willelmus de Burgo (de Burgh / Burke). After Johannis Glastoniensis , Wilhelm equipped the monastery with " multis viculis circumjacibentus, eclesiis et capellis, cum bosco et plano in viis et in semitis, in pratis, pascuis moris, montanis et mariscis, forestis, venatibus, warennis et cunigeris, cum foris et nundinis " out. The monastery was dedicated to the glory of God and the Blessed Virgin. The first abbot, Richard (Ricard), was from Glastonbury. He is also mentioned in another of Wilhelm's charter, which brings him in connection with Herilocher (perhaps Iar Luachair in Kerry ).

The localization of Ocunild (also Ocunald, Hearne has the spelling Ocymild) is controversial. Wilhelm de Burgo owned land in Limerick and Tipperary . Presumably the monastery was on an island near Loghill (Leamkaill). Drumawillin at Ballycastle in Antrim was also identified as Ardimur. Brooks reads Ocunild as Uí Conaill, the monastery would have been in the parish of Shanagolden (Co. Limerick).

Presumably the monastery ceased to exist after Wilhelm's death in 1206, after which no further documentary mentions can be proven.

swell

• Thomas Hearne (ed.), Johannes Glasoniensis Chronica, Oxford 1726.
• Dugdale (ed.), Monasticon Anglicanum VI / I.
• Msgr. Moloney (ed.), Monasticon Hibernicum
• Onomasticon Goidelicum

literature

• E. St. John Brooks: Irish Daughter Houses of Glastonbury. In: Proc. Royal Irish Acad. C 56, 1953-54, 287-195.
• Hodder Westropp: Ancient Churches of Co. Limeric. In: Proc. Royal Irish Acad. Sec. C, 25.