Glanworth Abbey

Glanworth Abbey

Mainistir Ghleannuir
Monastery information
Other names	Priory of the Holy Cross,[1] Rock Abbey[2]
Order	Dominican
National monument of Ireland
Official name	Rock Abbey, Glanworth
Reference no.	558

Glanworth Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Ghleannuir),[3] also known as the Priory of the Holy Cross and as the Rock Abbey is a ruined Dominican abbey in Glanworth, County Cork, Ireland.

History

Despite early estimations of the foundation as being in 1227, the abbey is not included in the Dominican catalogue of 1300. The foundation is more likely to have been in 1475.[1] The abbey was suppressed circa. February 1541.[4]

Architecture

The abbey would once have featured a cemetery, a church including a belfry, a cloister, and a dormitory.[1] The abbey sat on an acreage of 10 acres, and itself enclosed one acre.[5]

References

Notes

1. Gwynn & Hadcock 1988, p. 225.
2. Cleary 2007, p. 87.
3. Flynn 1993, p. 68.
4. Flynn 1993, p. 22.
5. Flynn 1993, p. 27, 31.

Sources

• Cleary, Rose M. (2007). "Excavations of medieval remains in Boherash townland, Glanworth, Co. Cork" (PDF). Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. 112: 87–126.
• Flynn, Thomas S. (1993). The Irish Dominicans 1536-1641. Dublin: Four Courts Press. ISBN 1-85182-122-8.
• Gwynn, Aubrey; Hadcock, R. Neville (1988). Medieval Religious Houses Ireland. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. p. 225.

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