Inishmacsaint

Inishmacsaint

Church ruins and high cross of Inishmacsaint
Monastery information
Established	6th century
Diocese	Diocese of Clogher
People
Founder(s)	St. Ninnidh
Site
Location	Lough Erne, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh
Coordinates	54°26′7.8″N 7°44′43.7″W

Signpost on mainland off A46, Lough Shore Drive.

Inishmacsaint (Irish: Inis-maige-samh, meaning 'Island of the Sorrel Plain') is a monastery located on an island off the western shore of Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. The site includes the ruins of a monastic church and an early stone cross, probably from the tenth and twelfth centuries. Inishmacsaint was founded by St. Ninnidh, (d. 523/30). The original monastic buildings were probably damaged or destroyed during the raids of the ninth or tenth centuries.[1]

Saints associated with Inishmacsaint Abbey

• Saint Ninnidh, feast day 18 January

Abbotts of Inishmacsaint Abbey

• Fiannamail: c. 718

References

1. Pilgrim's Way to St. Patrick's Purgatory, by Eileen Gardiner, 2010, pp. 122-25. The Parish of Inishmacsaint, by William Parke, 1982. North West Ulster: The Buildings of Ireland, by Alistair Rowan, 1979, pp. 318–19. Medieval Religious Houses: Ireland, by Gwynn & Hadcock, 1970, p. 38.