Monasterevin Abbey

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Monasterevin Cistercian Abbey
location IrelandIreland Ireland
County Kildare
Coordinates: 53 ° 8 '22 "  N , 7 ° 3' 45"  W Coordinates: 53 ° 8 '22 "  N , 7 ° 3' 45"  W.
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		489
Patronage St. Mary
St. Benedict
founding year 1178  ?
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1539
Mother monastery Baltinglass Abbey
Primary Abbey Clairvaux Monastery

Daughter monasteries

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Monasterevin Abbey ( Rosea Vallis ; Rosglas , Irish Mainistir Eimhín ) is a former Cistercian monk abbey . It is located in the town of Monasterevin in County Kildare, what is now the Republic of Ireland , at the junction of the Grand Canal and the River Barrow .

history

The monastery was founded between 1178 (founding charter) and 1189 (plaque) by Dermot O'Dempsey, the king of Offaly, as a subsidiary of Baltinglass Abbey on the site of a 6th century abbey dedicated to St. Evin and thus belonged to the filiation the Branch Clairvaux on. After the Mellifont conspiracy ended , it was placed under the Fountains Monastery in 1227 . The abbey, which suffered economic decline in the 14th century, was dissolved in 1539 or 1540. The last abbot was Hugh O'Dempsey. After the dissolution, the monastery property was transferred to George, Lord Audley, who left it to Adam Loftus, Viscount Ely. The monastery grounds were then acquired by the Moore family, the Earls of Drogheda, under whom the city of Monasterevin was expanded. In 1767 the sixth Earl of Drogheda had the monastery demolished and a new church built, which had since been replaced by another. In place of the monastery buildings, he put a neo-Gothic mansion, known as Moore Abbey, which was acquired in 1938 by the Sisters of Charity of Jesus, who run a nurses' school there.

Buildings and plant

There are no visible remains of the monastery. However, there is still an ordinal from 1501 in the Bodleian Library in Oxford .

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