Moyne Abbey
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Moyne Abbey (Template:Langx)[1] is a ruined medieval Franciscan friary in Killala, County Mayo, Ireland. Founded at some point before 1455, the abbey was burned in 1590 (see Dissolution of the monasteries).[2]
History
The Abbey was founded before the year (1455) by Fr Nehemias O'Donoghue, who was the provincial vicar at the time, and consecrated in 1462.[3] It is located north of Ballina on the west side of Killala Bay on the old Ballina or "French" road. Like its neighbour, Rosserk Friary, it was burnt by Sir Richard Bingham, Elizabeth I of England's governor of Connacht, in 1590 in Reformationist zeal. It’s believed friars continued to reside there until about 1800.[4]
The friary was built in the late Irish Gothic style and has extensive ruins, consisting of a church and domestic buildings situated around a central cloister. Its west doorway is a seventeenth insertion. Its east window displays fine switchline tracery.Template:Fact
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References
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- Buildings and structures completed in 1462
- Buildings and structures in County Mayo
- Franciscan monasteries in the Republic of Ireland
- Ruins in the Republic of Ireland
- Christian monasteries established in the 1450s
- National monuments in County Mayo
- Gothic architecture in the Republic of Ireland