- Abbey was founded probably by Donal MacGillapatrick King of Ossory, around 1160. ... Jerpoint abbey has fallen into ruin by 17th century.
- Established in 1180, Jerpoint Abbey was built for the Cistercian sect of Catholic monks by the King of Osraige on the site of an earlier Benedictine monastery.
- Jerpoint Abbey, Kilkenny. An outstanding Cistercian abbey, a mile to the south-west of Thomastown, founded in the latter half of the 12th century by Donal...
- While more probably a local priest from Jerpoint Abbey, it lies in the medieval lost town of Newtown Jerpoint, just west of the Cistercian Jerpoint Abbey.
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- Jerpoint Abbey was build in 1180 on the site of the earlier Benedictine monastery build there by King of Soraige- Domnal MacGillpatraic.
- Jerpoint Abbey is a ruined Cistercian abbey, founded within the 2d half of the 12th century, close to Thomastown, County Kilkenny, Ireland.
- As with the carvings of Jerpoint Abbey, it is fun to imagine the inspiration behind the picture—even if the truth, itself, remains long-buried.
- The dark, biscuit-coloured tower of Jerpoint Abbey, with its battlements, rears above a bend on the road south of Thomastown.
- Jerpoint Abbey is a ruined Cistercian abbey, founded in the second half of the 12th century, near Thomastown, County Kilkenny, Ireland.