Creevelea Abbey

Creevelea Abbey is an early 16th-century Franciscan friary founded in 1508 by Eóghan O'Rourke, Lord of West Bréifne, and his wife Margaret O'Brian, daughter of a King of Thomond. Established as a daughter foundation of Donegal Abbey, Creevelea holds the distinction of being the last Franciscan monastery constructed before the Dissolution of the monasteries transformed Irish religious life. The ...