Inch Abbey
| Inch Cistercian Abbey | |
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.jpg) The remains of Inch Abbey |
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| location |
 United Kingdom of Northern Ireland
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| Coordinates: | 54 ° 19 '58 " N , 5 ° 44' 0" W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
481 |
| founding year | 1180 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1542 |
| Mother monastery | Furness Abbey |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
no ? |
Inch Abbey ( Insula Curcii ; Iniscourcey ; Irish Mainistir na hInse , Inis Cumhscraigh ) is a former Cistercian Abbey in Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom . It was relatively secluded about a mile northwest of Downpatrick in County Down between the Quoile River and the marshland, between two drumlins .
history
On the site of the monastery there was probably a church around the year 800, which was plundered by Vikings in 1001 . The monastery was founded as a Benedictine monastery in 1127 and after the Anglo-Norman invasion in 1180 (according to other data not until around 1187) under the rule of John de Courcy as a subsidiary of Furness Abbey in Lancashire, the monastery joined the Cistercian order. So it belonged to the filiation of the Clairvaux Primary Abbey . The monastery remained under English influence and in 1380 refused to accept Irish monks. In 1404 the abbey was set on fire and then the church was reduced in size. Conventual life ended in 1542 and the abbey finally passed to the Perceval Maxwell family, who undertook some repairs in the 19th century, but handed the monastery over to the state in 1910, which subsequently carried out major maintenance work.
Buildings and plant
The western part of the cross-shaped church with five nave bays has been largely destroyed. Parts of the church are renewed in cement. The rectangular choir had three lancet windows and a window above, of which only the lower attachment has been preserved, and pairs of lancets in the north and south. The northern transept, like the more damaged southern one, which opened into a small armarium, had two chapels. In the 15th century, the transepts and the nave on the other side of the first nave yoke were separated, probably because the church had become too big. The enclosure was in the south of the church. The cloister galleries no longer exist. Next to the armarium were the small chapter house, the narrow parlatorium and the monks' hall, above which the dormitory. The south wing accommodated the kitchen and refectory. Instead of the lay brother wing, the west side of the cloister only has an end wall. The hospital is believed to have been a building southeast of the east wing.
Film location
December 2010 some scenes for the HBO series Game of Thrones were filmed in the ruins of the monastery .
Web links
- Site of the Certosa di Firenze to the monastery
- Website for the monastery (English; PDF file; 101 kB)
- Website of Cistercians Sheffield (English)
- Another website with a drawing of the medieval complex
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- ^ Filming Location Details Inch Abbey . Westeros.org. Retrieved May 21, 2014.