Abbeys & Friaries of Ireland: map and guide by county

Abbeys, priories and friaries are the houses of religious orders - Cistercian and Benedictine monks, Augustinian canons, and Franciscan, Dominican and Augustinian friars - founded mostly between the 12th and 15th centuries. Most were suppressed in the 16th century and survive as ruins.

Every abbey or friary with a reliable location in the Republic is on the map below. The best-documented ones have a page of their own.

26 of these pages quote recorded folklore - see folklore and traditions.