Dunbrody Abbey

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Dunbrody Abbey ( Irish Dún Bróithe; Portus sanctae Mariae ) is a former Cistercian monk Abbey in County Wexford in the Republic of Ireland today. It is located east of the estuary of the River Barrow and south of New Ross in a vast plain.

History

The monastery was in 1170 or 1171 ( according to other sources until 1181 or 1182 ) after the Norman invasion of Ireland on a foundation of Hervé de Montmorency, the uncle of Richard de Clare ( known as Strongbow ), initially founded as a daughter house of Buildwas Abbey in England and thus belonged to the filiation of primary Clairvaux Abbey, but soon became Saint Mary's Abbey (Dublin ) assumes allegedly because the English monks felt the country as to settlement empty. Hervé de Montmorency was first abbot of the monastery. The monastery was completed in 1220. 1228 was Glanawydan Abbey, a daughter house of Inislounaght Abbey, Dunbrody connected to, but it was already reduced in 1232 to a grange and went back in 1278 to Inislounaght over, as the filiation of Mellifont Abbey was restored. Also Portumna Priory in County Galway was one of 1254 to around 1426, when it was taken over by the Dominicans, as a priory to Dunbrody. The abbey said to have been disbanded in 1536. To 1542, leaving the last abbot, Alexander Devereux, who later became bishop of Ferns, the Monastery of the king and his descendants. The monastery and its lands later came into the possession of the Etchingham family and then by marriage into the family of Chichester, which the monastery in 1911 the Office of Public Works left. 1852 collapsed the nave arcade.

Buildings and plant

The cruciform church was (probably 1210-1240 ) erected the first half of the 12th century. It is 59 m long and has Ostkapellen in the aisles. The crossing tower was added in the 15th century. Of the conventual buildings of an eastern tower and an archway in the west are obtained.