Ardboe Monastery Ruins

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Around 590 AD, St Colman founded an abbey or monastery at Ardboe, on an elevated site overlooking Lough Neagh. It was burned 1166 and destroyed by John de Courcey in 1198, today ruins, cemetery and high cross remain.

Address
Ardboe, United Kingdom

Established
590 AD

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