Morne Abbey
| Mainstir na Morna Morne Abbey |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 8 ′ N , 8 ° 39 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Ireland | ||
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| county | Cork | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | IE-CO | ||
| Residents | 1000 (2011) | ||
Morne Abbey ( Irish Mainstir na Morna ), also Mourneabbey is a small community south of Mallow ( County Cork , Republic of Ireland ). The place has around 1000 inhabitants and has two churches with schools, Analeentha and Burnfort.
history
Morne Abbey was built by the Knights Templar around 1199 . They built a church with a protective wall and watchtowers, this wall also enclosed a refectory and some farm buildings. In 1307, in the course of the dissolution of the order, the Templars were arrested and brought to Dublin , and the abbey was handed over to the Order of Hospitallers (St. John). When King Henry VIII of England ordered the abolition of the monasteries in 1541 , the monk knights abandoned the abbey. A historical plaque attached there commemorates this event.
Both the abbey and Barrett's Castle, built in 1335 as a shelter, are now ruins. Barrett's Castle was razed by Oliver Cromwell's troops around 1651 . The ruins also played a role in the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921), when a failed ambush on English troops, carried out by Liam Lynch , cost eight Irish volunteers their lives, eight more were captured and two were subsequently executed. At that time, the IRA emerged from the volunteers . The Mayor of Cork , Tomás Mac Curtain, who was killed in the fighting in 1921, was from Morne Abbey.
Sport and Transport
Morne Abbey is home to the Clyda Rovers GAA club , one of the oldest clubs in the Gaelic Athletic Association , which is based in a newly built sports complex. There is also the Mourneabbey Ladies Football Club here .
The Morne Abbey railway station opened on May 1, 1892 and had to close on September 9, 1963. It was on the Mallow-Cork Rail Line .