Dunbrody Abbey

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Dunbrody Cistercian Abbey
The abbey around 1780
The abbey around 1780
location IrelandIreland Ireland
County Wexford
Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 20 ″  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 20 ″  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 0 ″  W
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		468
Patronage St. Mary
founding year 1171
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1536
Mother monastery Buildwas Abbey
Primary Abbey Clairvaux Monastery

Daughter monasteries

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Dunbrody Abbey ( Irish Mainistir Dhún Bróithe ; Portus sanctae Mariae) is a former Cistercian abbey in County Wexford in what is now the Republic of Ireland . It lies in a wide plain east of the mouth of the River Barrow and south of New Ross .

history

The monastery was founded in 1170 or 1171 (according to other sources not until 1181 or 1182) after the Norman invasion of Ireland on a foundation by Hervé de Montmorency, the uncle of Richard de Clare (called Strongbow), initially as a daughter monastery of Buildwas Abbey in England and belonged to the filiation of Clairvaux Primary Abbey , but was soon subordinated to Saint Mary's Abbey (Dublin) , allegedly because the English monks found the country to be too deserted. Hervé de Montmorency became the first abbot of the monastery. The construction of the monastery was completed around 1220. In 1228 Glanawydan Abbey , a subsidiary of Inislounaght Abbey , was attached to Dunbrody, but it was reduced to a grangie in 1232 and returned to Inislounaght in 1278 when the filiation of Mellifont Abbey was restored. Portumna Priory in County Galway was also a priory of Dunbrody from 1254 until around 1426, when it was taken over by the Dominicans . The abbey is said to have been dissolved in 1536. Around 1542 the last abbot, Alexander Devereux, later Bishop of Ferns , left the monastery to the king and his descendants. The monastery and its lands later came into the possession of the Etchingham family and then by marriage to the Chichester family, who left the monastery to the Office of Public Works in 1911. In 1852 the nave arcade collapsed.

Buildings and plant

Plan of the monastery complex
The abbey ruins from the southeast

The cross-shaped church is 59 m long and has east chapels in the side aisles. The crossing tower was added in the 15th century. From the convent buildings an east tower and a passage arch in the west have been preserved.

literature

  • Wolfgang Metternich: Kunstdenkmäler in Irland , Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2003, pp. 100-101, ISBN 3-534-14909-2 .
  • L. Russell Muirhead (Ed.): Ireland , The Blue Guides, London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1962, p. 219, without ISBN.

Web links

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