Errew Abbey

Errew Abbey is a former Augustinian monastery located on a peninsula stretching into Lough Conn in County Mayo, Ireland.

Tigernan of Errew is said to have founded a monastery here in the early 6th century. It was refounded by the Barretts in the 12th/13th century.

Thomas Barrett, Bishop of Elphin, was buried here in 1404. In 1413 the Barretts founded an abbey for the Augustinian Canons, dedicated to the Virgin Mary; they seem to have made use of the buildings from the earlier foundation. Rather than a true abbey, it was more likely a priory cell dependent on Crossmolina Abbey. Errew Abbey was dissolved in 1585.

There is a long rectangular church, measuring 27 × 7 m which has retained some trefoil-headed windows, two sedilia and a piscina. The east side of the cloister is well-preserved, but it does not have the typical open arcade.

Address
Crossmolina, Ireland

Established
12th century