Monasteranenagh Abbey
| Cistercian Abbey of Monasteranenagh | |
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| location |
 Ireland County Limerick |
| Coordinates: | 52 ° 31 '0.8 " N , 8 ° 39' 46.3" W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
291 |
| founding year | 1148 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1539 |
| Mother monastery | Mellifont Abbey |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
Inislounaght Abbey (1151) |
Monasteranenagh Abbey (or Nenay Abbey , Irish Mainistir an Aonaigh , Latin Magium ) is a former Cistercian abbey in County Limerick in what is now the Republic of Ireland . It is located in Monasteranenagh near Croom on the plain about 20 km south of Limerick on the River Camoge .
etymology
Mainistir an Aonaigh means "monastery of the fair", named after a market held here. The Latin name is the Latinized form of the river name Mague.
history
The monastery was donated in 1148 by Turlough O'Brien , King of Munster , in gratitude for his victory over the Vikings at Rathmore Castle and was a subsidiary of Mellifont Abbey, founded in 1142 . Thus it belonged to the filiation of the Primary Abbey Clairvaux Monastery . At least four subsidiaries were founded by Monasteranenagh:
- Inislounaght Abbey (1151, also known as the daughter of Mellifont Abbey )
- Abbeydorney Abbey (1154),
- Midleton Abbey (1180)
- Holy Cross Abbey (1181)
The Abbeyfeale Abbey , founded in 1188, was subordinated to Cella Monasteranenagh in 1209. In 1227 the monastery was subordinated to Margam Abbey in Wales . In 1228, as a result of the Mellifont conspiracy, the non-Irish monks were expelled. The convent was then excommunicated and the displaced monks were reinstated. At the end of the 13th century the monastery was heavily in debt. It was dissolved in 1539/40, but the monks stayed until around 1580 after their property had already been given to Sir Osborne Echingham in 1543. In 1579 the abbey was set on fire as part of the so-called 2nd Desmond Rebellion . This is followed by the legend of the murder of 40 monks, which is taken up in a fresco of the Zwiefalten monastery by Franz Joseph Spiegler . The buildings were damaged again in 1585 and then came to Sir Henry Wallop (1540–1599), who left the ruins to decay.
Buildings and plant
The cruciform church, the transepts of which have been removed, with two arched windows in the west wall from the period from 1170 to 1220 and the early Gothic chapter house have been preserved in a ruinous condition. A tower collapsed around 1806. The church ruins were used as a burial place until around 1970.
literature
- Peter Stoll: Notes on the program of Franz Joseph Spiegler's frescoes in the Benedictine abbey church in Zwiefalten , pp. 2–7 (on the events of 1579), Peter Stoll: Notes on the program of Franz Joseph Spiegler's frescos in the Benedictine abbey church in Zwiefalten (PDF; 589 kB)
- Peter Stoll: The Monasteranenagh miracle (1579): an Irish legend in a south German abbey church . In: Thomas O'Connor, Mary Ann Lyons (eds.): The Ulster earls and baroque Europe: Refashioning Irish identities, 1600–1800. Dublin 2010, pp. 262-277, ISBN 978-184682-185-1
- L. Russell Muirhead (Ed.): Ireland . The Blue Guides, Ernest Benn Ltd., London 1962, p. 240, without ISBN.
- Thomas Johnson Westropp: History of the Abbey and Battles of Monasteranenagh, Croom, County Limerick, 1148-1603 . The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland. 9 (80), pp. 232-238.
Web links
- Monasteranenagh and Aciveiro (vedi: Acebeiro) two sides of the Certosa di Firenze to the monastery
- Website of Cistercians Sheffield with a photo (english)