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Burrishoole Friary

Coordinates: 53°53′55″N 9°34′19″W / 53.89861°N 9.57194°W / 53.89861; -9.57194
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Burrishoole Friary
Mainistir Bhuiríos Umhaill
Burrishoole Friary is located in Ireland
Burrishoole Friary
Location within Ireland
Monastery information
OrderDominican Order
Established1470
Disestablished1606
DioceseKillala
People
Founder(s)Richard de Burgo of Turlough, Lord MacWilliam Oughter
Architecture
StatusInactive
StyleGothic
Site
LocationCounty Mayo, Ireland
Coordinates53°53′55″N 9°34′19″W / 53.89861°N 9.57194°W / 53.89861; -9.57194
Visible remainsChurch
Public accessYes
Official nameBurrishoole Abbey
Reference no.235

Burrishoole Friary (Irish: Minister Bhuiríos Umhaill) was a Dominican friary in County Mayo, Ireland. Its ruin is a National Monument.

Burrishoole Friary was founded in 1470 by Richard de Burgo of Turlough, Lord MacWilliam Oughter. It was built without the permission of Pope Paul II (term 1464-1471). In 1486, Pope Innocent VIII (term 1484-1492) instructed Uilliam Seóighe, the Archbishop of Tuam (term 1485-1501) to forgive the friars. Richard de Burgo resigned his lordship in 1469 and entered the friary which he had founded. He remained a friar until his death in 1473. This was not an uncommon occurrence, and serves to illustrate the connection between patrons and their foundations at the time.[1]

The church and the eastern wall of the cloister remain. The grounds of the friary are an actively used cemetery.[citation needed]

Burrishoole Friary is a few kilometers west of the town of Newport, County Mayo. It is often called Burrishoole Abbey, although this colloquial name is inaccurate as because the Dominican order did not have abbots, Dominican houses are not technically abbeys.[citation needed]

Almost all the friaries and abbeys across Ireland were suppressed in the wake of the Reformation in the 16th century. Very few were rebuilt after that time and now only the ruins survive, pleasing, if poignant, late Gothic relics of what must have been among the most striking buildings in the countryside of pre-Tudor Ireland.[2]

  • Cloister
    Cloister
  • South transept and nave
    South transept and nave
  • Tower
    Tower

See also

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.nuigalway.ie/archaeology/Graduate_Program/Current_Postgraduate_Research_Pages/McDermott__Yvonne_Postgraduate_Research/mcdermott_yvonne_index[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "An Outline History of County Mayo in the West of Ireland | mayo-ireland.ie".

References

  • Monument sign in front of the Friary

53°53′55″N 9°34′19″W / 53.89861°N 9.57194°W / 53.89861; -9.57194

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