Sligo Abbey
Sligo Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Shligigh), a ruined abbey in Sligo, Ireland, (officially called the Dominican Friary of Sligo) was originally built in 1253 by Maurice Fitzgerald, Baron of Offaly. It was destroyed in 1414 by a fire, ravaged during the Nine Years' War in 1595. During the Irish Confederate Wars it was attacked and burned by Frederick Hamilton on the night of 1 July 1642.[1][2] The friars moved out in the 18th century, but Lord Palmerston restored the Abbey in the 1850s. Currently, it is open to the public.
Mainistir Shligigh | |
 | |
  Location within Ireland | |
| Monastery information | |
|---|---|
| Order | Dominican Order |
| Established | 1253 |
| Disestablished | 1760 |
| Diocese | Elphin |
| People | |
| Founder(s) | Maurice Fitzgerald, Baron of Offaly |
| Architecture | |
| Status | Inactive |
| Style | Norman |
| Site | |
| Location | Sligo, County Sligo |
| Coordinates | 54.270809°N 8.470091°W |
| Visible remains | Church |
| Public access | Yes |
It appears in two short stories by William Butler Yeats: The Crucifixion of the Outcast, set in the Middle Ages, and The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows describing its destruction in 1641.[3]
The Abbey ruins in 1791
Notes and references
- O'Rorke 1890, p. 155: "The irruption of Hamilton into Sligo took place on the night of the 1 July, 1642."
- Coleman 1902, p. 99, line 30: "... to the Friary, burned the superstitious trumperies ... the Fryars themselves were also burnt, and two of them running out were killed in their habits."
- Yeats 1914, p. 134.
- Coleman, Ambrose (1902), The Irish Dominicans of the Seventeenth Century, Dundalk: William Tempest
- O'Rorke, Terence (1890), The History of Sligo: Town and County, 1, Dublin: J. Duffy
- Yeats, William Butler (1914), Stories of Red Hanrahan - The Secret Rose - Rosa Alchemica, New York: The MacMillan Company
See also
- List of abbeys and priories in Ireland (County Sligo)
External links
- Sligo Abbey - official site at Heritage Ireland
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