Mothel Abbey

Mothel Abbey
Mainistir Mhaothla
Location within Ireland
Monastery information
Other names Maothail; Motalia; Mothil; Maothail Braocáin
Order Augustinians
Cistercians
Established 6th century AD
Disestablished 1540
Diocese Waterford and Lismore
People
Founder(s) Broccán Clóen
Architecture
Status Inactive
Site
Location Mothel, County Waterford
Coordinates 52°17′54″N 7°25′07″W / 52.298456°N 7.418558°W / 52.298456; -7.418558
Public access Yes
Official name Mothel Abbey
Reference no. 132

Mothel Abbey is a former Augustinian monastery and National Monument located in County Waterford, Ireland.[1][2]

Location

Mothel Abbey is located in Mothel village, 5.4 km (3.4 mi) south of Carrick-on-Suir.[3][4]

History

Graveslab of Richard Power, d. 1483.

Mothel was an early monastic site, founded in the 6th century either by Broccán Clóen (Brogan, feast day 8 July) or, according to the Martyrology of Donegal, St. Brogan Scribe. Cúan succeeded Brogan.[5]

It was refounded by the Augustinian Canons Regular after 1140, and they controlled a large region of central County Waterford. The remaining buildings date to the 13th century, and a tomb from c. 1500.[6]

The last abbot, Edmund Power, surrendered the abbey on 7 April 1540 as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.[7]

For a limited time period in the first half of the 17th century, the Cistercian abbot Thomas Madan occupied Mothel, wrongly assuming that Mothel is a Cistercian foundation. This led to a prolonged conflict with Patrick Comerford, bishop of Waterford and Lismore and Vicar General of the Order of Canons Regular of St. Augustine, who eventually convinced Madan before his death in 1645.[8][9]

Known abbots

  • to 1463: Thady O'Morrissey
  • 1463: Donald O'Byrne / Donaldus Obreyn / Domhnall Ó Briain[10][11]
  • to 1540: Edmund Power

Remains

Nave of church

The remains are the church are part of the south wall of the monastic church, a portion of a gable (minus door or window), and part of what may have been the south transept. In the surviving south wall are two windows, one completely disfigured, the other consisting of two plain Gothic lights separated by a limestone mullion, and the arches formed of two stones each. Internally the dressings are of sandstone.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Holdings: The story of Mothel".
  2. ↑ "Decies XXXVIII" (PDF). Old Waterford Society. Summer 1988. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  3. ↑ Clark, Trish (1 May 2010). "France, United Kingdom, Ireland". Hidden Spring – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ "Collectanea Hibernica". Leinster Leader Limited. 1 January 1968 – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ Society, Kilkenny Archaeological (1 January 1852). "Transactions of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society". The Society – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ Geocaching. "Geocaching - The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site".
  7. ↑ "Motel Abbey Ruins".
  8. 1 2 "JOURNAL OF THE WATERFORD & SOUTH EAST OF IRELAND Archaeological Society Volume II" (PDF). waterfordcoco.ie. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  9. ↑ Ó Conbhuidhe, Colmcille (1998). Studies in Irish Cistercian History. Dublin: Four Courts Press. pp. 220–223. ISBN 1-85182-378-6.
  10. ↑ "Molana Abbey in County Waterford, Ireland".
  11. ↑ Barry, T. B.; Frame; Simms, Katharine (1 January 1995). "COLONY & FRONTIER IN MEDIEVAL IRELAND: Essays Presented to J.F.Lydon". A&C Black – via Google Books.
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