Moyne Abbey

54°12′08″N 9°10′37″W / 54.202234°N 9.177070°W / 54.202234; -9.177070 (Moyne Abbey) Moyne Abbey (Irish: Mainistir na Maighne)[1] is a ruined medieval Franciscan friary in Killala, County Mayo, Ireland.

It was founded before the year (1455) by Fr Nehemias O'Donoghue, who was the provincial vicar at the time, and consecrated in 1462.

Like its neighbour, Rosserk Friary, it was burnt by Sir Richard Bingham, Elizabeth I of England's governor of Connacht, in 1590 in Reformationist zeal.

[3] The friary was built in the late Irish Gothic style and has extensive ruins, consisting of a church and domestic buildings situated around a central cloister.

Its east window displays fine switchline tracery.