Cahir Abbey

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Priory of St. Mary in Cahir
Mainistir Chathair Dún Iascaigh
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Ruins of the abbey church
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Location within Ireland
Monastery information
Other namesCathair-duine-iascaid; Cahir-Dunesk; Cayrdunheach; Chaier; Kaherdunesche; Catherdunesque
Order Augustinian
Establishedlate 12th century AD
Disestablished1540
Diocese Waterford and Lismore
People
Founder(s)Galfrid de Camville
Architecture
Statusruined
Style Late Gothic
Site
LocationAbbey Street, Cahir, County Tipperary
Coordinates 52°22′46.279″N7°55′42.049″W / 52.37952194°N 7.92834694°W / 52.37952194; -7.92834694
Public accessyes
Official nameCahir Abbey Priory (Augustinian) [1]
Reference no.595

The Priory of St. Mary in Cahir, known as Cahir Abbey, was a medieval priory of Augustinian Canons regular and is a National Monument located in Cahir, Ireland. [2] [3] [4]

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Location

Cahir Abbey is located 600 metres (660 yd) north of Cahir Castle, on the west bank of the River Suir. [5] [6] [7]

History

The priory was founded in the late 12th century AD. Galfrid de Camville, Anglo-Norman Baron of Cahir and Fedamore, made a grant to its hospital c. 1200. [8] [9] [10]

St Mary’s priory is a multi phased, with evidence of the original 13th century buildings and further alterations and additions in the 15th and 16th/17th centuries.[ citation needed ]

The priory was dissolved in 1540 and surrendered by prior Edmond O'Lonergan; the church, parochial and conventual buildings were occupied by Sir Thomas Butler by January 1541. The priory was alienated by William Hutchinson and Edward Walshe 1561 and granted to Edmond Butler in 1566.[ citation needed ]

Buildings

The chancel of the church survives, with a row of windows in the north wall; also there are carved corbels and mouldings in limestone.

There is a residential tower, apparently seventeenth century in date, immediately west of the chancel. [11] [12]

There are also a cloister and domestic buildings. Mason's marks are visible. [13] [14]

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References

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