After instruction in the religious life, she founded a community, initially consisting of eight virgins and a widow with a baby, at Slieve Gullion, in what became County Armagh.

[2] There are a couple of versions of the name Moninne, for example, Darerca, Blinne or the spelling Moninna which means in Irish "My Ninna" or "My Daughter".

[4] She took her Sisters west to the island of Begerin to be guided in the ways of monastic life by her uncle,[5] one of the first Irish bishops, St.

[8] The nunnery at Killeavy (meaning "church of the mountain"), initially consisting of eight virgins and a widow with a baby boy.

[citation needed] A large granite stone covers the supposed grave of St Moninne and on days when the Pattern (which was the anniversary of the day on which a church had been dedicated to a saint) was celebrated, prayers were said at this spot and the pilgrims continued to her Holy Well further up the slopes of Slieve Gullion, returning to this gravestone for the final prayer.

[3] The Pattern Day of St Moninne was 6 July, but with the coming of persecution to the Catholic faith, these religious ceremonies were banned by law.