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The Abbey of Movilla was founded in 540 by St. Finnian (d. 579) under the patronage of the king of the Dál Fiatach.It survived as a place of Christian witness for over a thousand years, until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1542. [1]
In 540 AD, St. Finian founded Movilla Abbey, a monastery, on a hill overlooking Strangford Lough about a mile northeast of present-day Newtownards town centre. "Movilla" (Magh Bhile) means "the plain of the sacred tree" in Irish, which suggests that the land had previously been a sacred pagan site. It became a significant Christian settlement ...
Finnian founded his new monastery (Movilla Abbey) in 540, at Maigh Bhile (Movilla)—the plain of the ancient tree, a sacred place, venerated in pagan times, [3] about a mile from the northern shore of Strangford Lough (the 15th Century ruins of Movilla Abbey can still be seen in Newtownards). He founded a famous school of Druim Fionn at about ...
Tullyhoa Abbey ø: order, foundation and founder unknown; ruins purported to be the remains of an abbey Tullylish Monastery # early monastic site, founded by St Bearnasga of Tulach-lis; mistakenly identified as Tyllylease (County Cork);
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The following is a list of the monastic houses in Buckinghamshire, England.. Alien houses are included, as are smaller establishments such as cells and notable monastic granges (particularly those with resident monks), and also camerae of the military orders of monks (Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaller).