Tinternparva Abbey

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Tinternparva Cistercian Abbey
The monastery
The monastery
location IrelandIreland Ireland
County Wexford
Coordinates: 52 ° 14 '13.3 "  N , 6 ° 50' 16.2"  W Coordinates: 52 ° 14 '13.3 "  N , 6 ° 50' 16.2"  W.
Serial number
according to Janauschek
527
founding year 1200
Year of dissolution /
annulment
1537
Mother monastery Tintern Abbey
Primary Abbey Citeaux monastery

Daughter monasteries

no

Tinternparva Abbey ( Irish Mainistir Thinteirn ; Tintern minor; Tintern de voto to distinguish it from the mother monastery Tintern Abbey in Monmouthshire , Wales ) is a former Cistercian abbey in County Wexford in what is now the Republic of Ireland . It is located in the southeast of the island in the village of Saltmills, founded after 1814, on the Hook peninsula on the left bank of a brook flowing into Bannow Bay.

history

The monastery was founded in 1200 or 1203 on a vow made by the distressed William Marshal , the Earl of Pembroke , who was not only Lord of Chepstow and Patron of Tintern, but also Lord of Leinster , and was manned by monks from Tintern Abbey. Thus it belonged to the filiation of the Cîteaux monastery . The abbey gained large estates and the county of Wexford and was considered the third wealthiest in Ireland when it was dissolved in 1536 or 1537. When it was dissolved, it was bestowed on Anthony Colclough, whose family changed the Church greatly. Sir Vesey Colclough built the fortified walls around the monastery in the 18th century. The nave was converted into a residential building in the neo-Gothic style around 1790. The facility has been government managed since the 1960s.

Buildings and plant

The ruins of the abbey

The layout corresponds to the Bernardin plan with the church in the north of the enclosure, towered over by a crossing tower.

literature

  • Friends of Tintern: Tintern Abbey County Wexford , 1st Edition Edited by Kevin Whelan, 2nd Edition Edited by Anne Finn, Colclough Memorial Hall, Saltmills, County Wexford, ISBN 0-9542132-0-3
  • L. Russell Muirhead (Ed.): Ireland , The Blue Guides, London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1962, p. 221, without ISBN.

Web links

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