Muckross Abbey

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Muckross-Abbey,  Henry Campbell (1757-1828).

Muckross  Abbey

Muckross Abbey is believed to have been founded as a Franciscan friary by Donal McCarthy Mór in 1448. This may have been a re-foundation, as the 17th-century Annals of the Four Masters records that the friary was established almost a century earlier, in 1340. Muckross Abbey experienced a turbulent history and became part of the Muckross Estate during the 18th century. A limited number of burials, for those individuals with family grave plots on-site, still take place.

You can read a brief account of Muckross Abbey in Issue 11 of the Muckross Newsletter (2001) here.

abbey survey
Survey - 1908 ( A.W. Barden )

 

 

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Muckross Abbey Burial Records 1900

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