Burrishoole Friary was founded in 1470 by Richard de Burgo of Turlough, Lord MacWilliam Oughter.

Richard de Burgo resigned his lordship in 1469 and entered the friary which he had founded.

[citation needed] Burrishoole Friary is a few kilometers west of the town of Newport, County Mayo.

[citation needed] Almost all the friaries and abbeys across Ireland were suppressed in the wake of the Reformation in the 16th century.

Very few were rebuilt after that time and now only the ruins survive, pleasing, if poignant, late Gothic relics of what must have been among the most striking buildings in the countryside of pre-Tudor Ireland.