Mothel Abbey

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Mothel Abbey
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Location within Ireland
Monastery information
Other namesMaothail; Motalia; Mothil; Maothail Braocáin
Order Augustinians
Cistercians
Established6th century AD
Disestablished1540
Diocese Waterford and Lismore
People
Founder(s) Broccán Clóen
Architecture
StatusInactive
Site
Location Mothel, County Waterford
Coordinates 52°17′54″N7°25′07″W / 52.298456°N 7.418558°W / 52.298456; -7.418558 Coordinates: 52°17′54″N7°25′07″W / 52.298456°N 7.418558°W / 52.298456; -7.418558
Public accessYes
Official nameMothel Abbey
Reference no.132

Mothel Abbey is a former Augustinian monastery and National Monument located in County Waterford, Ireland. [1] [2]

Contents

Location

Mothel Abbey is located in Mothel village, 5.4 km (3.4 mi) south of Carrick-on-Suir. [3] [4]

History

Graveslab of Richard Power, d. 1483. Mothel Priory Graveyard Crosslab of Richard Power 1483 2015 09 16.jpg
Graveslab of Richard Power, d. 1483.

Mothel was an early monastic site, founded in the 6th century either by Broccán Clóen (Brogan, feast day 8 July) or, according to the Martyrology of Donegal, St. Brogan Scribe. Cúan succeeded Brogan. [5]

It was refounded by the Augustinian Canons Regular after 1140, and they controlled a large region of central County Waterford. The remaining buildings date to the 13th century, and a tomb from c. 1500. [6]

The last abbot, Edmund Power, surrendered the abbey on 7 April 1540 as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries. [7]

For a limited time period in the first half of the 17th century, the Cistercian abbot Thomas Madan occupied Mothel, wrongly assuming that Mothel is a Cistercian foundation. This led to a prolonged conflict with Patrick Comerford, bishop of Waterford and Lismore and Vicar General of the Order of Canons Regular of St. Augustine, who eventually convinced Madan before his death in 1645. [8] [9]

Known abbots

Remains

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Nave of church

The remains are the church are part of the south wall of the monastic church, a portion of a gable (minus door or window), and part of what may have been the south transept. In the surviving south wall are two windows, one completely disfigured, the other consisting of two plain Gothic lights separated by a limestone mullion, and the arches formed of two stones each. Internally the dressings are of sandstone. [8]

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