Scoil: Shelbaggan Convent
- Suíomh:
- Shelbaggan, Co. Wexford
- Múinteoir: An tSr M. Breandán
Tagairt chartlainne
Bailiúchán na Scol, Imleabhar 0874, Leathanach 001
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- XML Scoil: Shelbaggan Convent
- XML Leathanach 001
- XML “Dunbrody Abbey”
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Ar an leathanach seo
- (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)One of the finest specimens of early English architecture in Ireland is Dunbrdody Abbey, Co Wexford, which stands on a slight eminence overlooking the estuary of Waterford Harbour, near the junction of the rivers Nore and Barrow with the Suir. It is truly a venerable pile of ecclesiastical ruins, lovely in its desolation, still exhibiting that strength and stern grandeur which characterises most of the monastic buildings erected by the early English invaders. It was founded in A.D. 1182 by Hervey de Montmorisco, uncle of Strongbow. Hervey had acquired vast possessions in land in County Wexford and he bestowed large tracts of this land on the Cistercian Abbey of Buildwas in Shropshire for the purpose of founding a Cistercian Abbey at Dunbrody. The Charter for the founding of the Abbey is still preserved in the Bodleian Library, and was witnessed by Felix O'Dullany, Bishop of Ossory. The property with which Hervey endowed Dunbrody extended from Bannow to Kempul, now Campile with fishing weirs,(leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)
