Tintern Abbey (County Wexford)

Daughter monasteries

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Tinternparva Abbey ( Irish Mainistir Thinteirn; Tintern minor; Tintern de voto to distinguish it from the mother monastery Tintern Abbey in Monmouthshire, Wales ) is a former Cistercian abbey in County Wexford in the Republic of Ireland today. It lies in the southeast of the island in the village founded after 1814 Salt Mills on the peninsula Hook on the left bank of a current flowing in the Bannow Bay Bach.

History

The monastery was a vow of distress of the loss in 1200 or 1203 William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, who was not only Lord of Chepstow and patron of Tintern, but also Lord of Leinster, founded and staffed by monks from Tintern Abbey. Thus, it belonged to the filiation of the monastery of Citeaux. The Abbey won wide lands and County Wexford and was in its resolution 1536 or 1537 as the drittwohlhabendste in Ireland. After the dissolution it was granted to Anthony Colclough, whose family, the church changed greatly. In the 18th century Sir Vesey Colclough built the fortified walls around the monastery. The nave was converted in 1790 into a residential building in neo-Gothic style. Since the sixties of the last century, the system is administered by the state.

Buildings and plant

The plant according to plan bernardin with that of a crossing tower surmounted church in the north of the exam.