Inishmacsaint

Inishmacsaint. Church ruins and high cross.
Signpost on mainland off A46, Lough Shore Drive.
Inishmacsaint
Monastery information
Established 6th century
Diocese Diocese of Clogher
People
Founder(s) St. Ninnidh
Site
Location Lough Erne, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh

Coordinates: 54°26′08″N 07°44′43″W / 54.43556°N 7.74528°W / 54.43556; -7.74528

Inishmacsaint (Irish: Inis-maige-samh, meaning "Island of the Sorrel Plain") is a monastery located on an island off the western shore of Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. The site includes the ruins of a monastic church and an early stone cross, probably from the tenth and twelfth centuries. Inishmacsaint was founded by St. Ninnidh, (d. 523/30). The original monastic buildings were probably damaged or destroyed during the raids of the ninth or tenth centuries.[1]

Saints associated with Inishmacsaint Abbey

Abbotts of Inishmacsaint Abbey

References

  1. Pilgrim's Way to St. Patrick's Purgatory, by Eileen Gardiner, 2010, pp. 122-25. The Parish of Inishmacsaint, by William Parke, 1982. North West Ulster: The Buildings of Ireland, by Alistair Rowan, 1979, pp. 318–19. Medieval Religious Houses: Ireland, by Gwynn & Hadcock, 1970, p. 38.


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