abbeys meath

Bective Abbey was founded in 1150 by Murchadh O' Melaghin, King of Meath, for the Cistercians, and was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin. It was an abbey of some importance as the Abbot was a spiritual lord and sat in the Parliament of the Pale. Hugh De Lacy, was buried there in 1195, but was eventually moved to Dublin. The abbey was suppressed in 1536 and the lands were rented to Thomas Asgarde, and eventually bought by Andrew Wyse in 1552. It passed into the hands of the Dillons and then the Bol...

Talbot Castle or St. Mary's Abbey as it is also known is an adapted Augustinian Priory and was used in the eighteenth century as an exclusive Protestant school. It was here that the then Arthur Wellesley was educated. The castle can still be seen on the north bank of the Boyne, facing the Norman fortress....

Slane Abbey was founded in1512 for 4 priests, four clerks ans four choristers....