Moyne Abbey
Moyne Abbey is one of the most impressive ecclesiastical ruins in Mayo and a National Monument.
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It was founded before the year (1455) by McWilliam Bourke family as a Franciscan friary and consecrated in 1462. 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.[1]
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.[citation needed]
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- List of abbeys and priories in Ireland (County Mayo)
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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 15th century
- National Monuments in County Mayo
- Gothic architecture in the Republic of Ireland