Newry Abbey
| Newry Cistercian Abbey | |
|---|---|
| location |
 United Kingdom of Northern Ireland
|
| Coordinates: | 54 ° 10 ′ 18 ″ N , 6 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
347 |
| Patronage | St. Mary St. Patrick St. Benedict |
| founding year | 1153 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1538 |
| Mother monastery | Mellifont Abbey |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
|
Daughter monasteries |
none ? |
Newry Abbey ( Latin Viride lignum , Irish Mainistir an Iúir ) is a former Cistercian abbey in Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom . It was in what is now the town of Newry in Counties Armagh and Down .
history
The monastery is said to have been donated by Maurice MacLoughlin, King of Ireland, in 1144 or 1153 and passed to the Cistercian order in 1153 or 1162 as a subsidiary of Mellifont Abbey from the filiation of Clairvaux Primary Abbey . References to an earlier Benedictine foundation are controversial. In 1162 the library and the yew tree, from which the Latin name of the monastery derives, were destroyed by fire. In 1227 the abbot was deposed for his participation in the Mellifont conspiracy . Probably in 1538 the monastery was withdrawn from the crown and converted into a secular college. In 1550 the abbot voluntarily handed the monastery over to the crown. The abbot's house is said to have been turned into a castle by Sir Nicholas Bagenal a little later. A chapel of the monastery stood until 1744. The monastery was on today's Castle Street.
Plant and buildings
Nothing of the monastery has survived in the building from the 18th century.