{"id":2338,"date":"2022-06-08T08:53:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T08:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tuatha.ie\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2023-08-29T13:11:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T13:11:30","slug":"tintern-abbey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuatha.ie\/tintern-abbey\/","title":{"rendered":"Tintern Abbey"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tintern Abbey was reputedly founded in\u00a0c.<\/em>1200 when the powerful Norman magnate William Marshal set out on his first visit to Ireland after his inheritance as Lord of Leinster. His ship was struck by a storm off the east coast and was close to foundering. He vowed to God that if he safely reached shore he would found an abbey wherever he landed. He managed to get ashore at Bannow Bay in County Wexford, and Marshal kept his vow and granted 3,500 hectares to the Cistercian Order to establish an abbey. Hence, Tintern was occasionally called\u00a0\u2018Tintern de Voto\u2019<\/em>\u00a0or \u2018Tintern of the Vow\u2019. As the Earl of Pembroke, William Marshal was also the patron of Tintern Abbey in Monmouthshire in Wales. He brought monks from Monmouthshire to settle in his new foundation in Wexford, which they named Tintern in honour of their original home.<\/span><\/p>\n Tintern was a wealthy and powerful Cistercian foundation, thought to be the third wealthiest Cistercian abbey, after Mellifont and St Mary\u2019s in Dublin. Tintern followed the standard layout format for all Cistercian abbeys in Ireland, based on the mother house of Mellifont. The cloisters were positioned at the south and were surrounded by a range of domestic and spiritual buildings, with a cruciform church to the north.<\/span><\/p>\n After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1540s , the lands were granted to Anthony Colclough, an army officer. He and his descendants made extensive changes and modifications to the abbey to change it from a Cistercian place of worship into a fashionable but fortified home.<\/p>\n<\/div> For practical information about visiting this site\u00a0Click Here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Tintern Abbey was reputedly founded in\u00a0c.<\/em>1200 when the powerful Norman magnate William Marshal set out on his first visit to Ireland after his inheritance as Lord of Leinster. His ship was struck by a storm off the east coast and was close to foundering. He vowed to God that if he safely reached shore he would found an abbey wherever he landed. He managed to get ashore at Bannow Bay in County Wexford, and Marshal kept his vow and granted 3,500 hectares to the Cistercian Order to establish an abbey. Hence, Tintern was occasionally called\u00a0\u2018Tintern de Voto\u2019<\/em>\u00a0or \u2018Tintern of the Vow\u2019. As the Earl of Pembroke, William Marshal was also the patron of Tintern Abbey in Monmouthshire in Wales. He brought monks from Monmouthshire to settle in his new foundation in Wexford, which they named Tintern in honour of their original home.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Tintern was a wealthy and powerful Cistercian foundation, thought to be the third wealthiest Cistercian abbey, after Mellifont and St Mary\u2019s in Dublin. Tintern followed the standard layout format for all Cistercian abbeys in Ireland, based on the mother house of Mellifont. The cloisters were positioned at the south and were surrounded by a range of domestic and spiritual buildings, with a cruciform church to the north.<\/span><\/p>\n After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1540s , the lands were granted to Anthony Colclough, an army officer. He and his descendants made extensive changes and modifications to the abbey to change it from a Cistercian place of worship into a fashionable but fortified home.<\/p>\n<\/div>