Qualla: Abbeymahon Abbey https://qualla.com/abbeymahon-abbey en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/v/abbeymahon-abbey-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Abbeymahon Abbey https://qualla.com/abbeymahon-abbey Abbeymahon Abbey: Introduction https://qualla.com/abbeymahon-abbey/ Photo credit JohnArmagh, Public domain. Cistercian monks chose their sites with care. The order's founding rule, written in 12th-century Burgundy, prescribed remote valleys beside fresh-flowing streams, where the brothers could divert water for their fish ponds, mills, and washing. The site at Abbeymahon, on the estuary of the Argideen River in West Cork, broke that rule. Here the water was salt. The monks who built the new monastery in the 1270s had moved here from another site, and they chose tidal flats over the freshwater valley a Cistercian founder would have picked. Why they made that choice has never been fully explained. What survives - parts of a nave, choir, and transept arches - is too sparse to answer the question.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/v/abbeymahon-abbey-wp/gc1v-abbeymahon-abbey-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Abbeymahon Abbey: From Aghavanister to the Estuary https://qualla.com/abbeymahon-abbey/ Photo credit JohnArmagh, Public domain. The original Cistercian abbey was founded in 1172 by Diarmait Mac Cormac Mac Carthaig, king of Desmond, in the townland of Aghavanister, less than two miles from the present ruin. The first monks came from Baltinglass in County Wicklow, one of the daughter houses of the great Mel...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/v/abbeymahon-abbey-wp/gc1v-abbeymahon-abbey-from-aghavanister-to-the-estuary.mp3 0:06 2 full Abbeymahon Abbey: St Mary de Fonte Vivo https://qualla.com/abbeymahon-abbey/ Photo credit JohnArmagh, Public domain. The abbey was known by several names in medieval documents: Abbeymahon, the Abbey of Sancto Mauro, and the Cistercian designation St Mary de Fonte Vivo - 'St Mary of the Living Spring.' The Sancto Mauro name is unlikely to commemorate Saint Maurus, a 6th-century disciple of Saint...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/v/abbeymahon-abbey-wp/gc1v-abbeymahon-abbey-st-mary-de-fonte-vivo.mp3 0:06 3 full Abbeymahon Abbey: The Reluctant Abbots https://qualla.com/abbeymahon-abbey/ Photo credit JohnArmagh, Public domain. The General Chapter of the Cistercian order was held every year at Cîteaux in Burgundy, and every abbot was summoned to attend. The abbots of Abbeymahon did not attend. They were rebuked several times in the 13th century for failing to make the journey - which, given the geograph...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/v/abbeymahon-abbey-wp/gc1v-abbeymahon-abbey-the-reluctant-abbots.mp3 0:06 4 full Abbeymahon Abbey: Surviving the Dissolution https://qualla.com/abbeymahon-abbey/ Photo credit JohnArmagh, Public domain. When Henry VIII broke with Rome and dissolved the English monasteries in the 1530s, the process spread to Ireland - but unevenly. Some Irish abbeys were suppressed quickly. Others survived for decades, sheltered by local lords whose Catholicism made them reluctant to enforce the ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/v/abbeymahon-abbey-wp/gc1v-abbeymahon-abbey-surviving-the-dissolution.mp3 0:06 5 full Abbeymahon Abbey: Stones in a Field https://qualla.com/abbeymahon-abbey/ Photo credit JohnArmagh, Public domain. In 1568 the property was leased to the Viscount Buttevant. In 1584, the lease passed to Nicholas Walsh, Justice of Munster. In 1587, Walsh received a permanent grant 'forever' that added some additional placenames to the holding. After that the trail goes cold. The abbey passed i...

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