St Saviour's Priory () is a ruined Augustinian monastery in

Glendalough Glendalough (; ) is a glacial valley in County Wicklow, Ireland, renowned for an Early Medieval monastic settlement founded in the 6th century by St Kevin. From 1825 to 1957, the head of the Glendalough Valley was the site of a galena lead min ...

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History

The priory was likely founded circa. 1162, which is when

Lorcán Ua Tuathail Lorcán Ua Tuathail, known in English as Laurence O'Toole and in French as Laurent d'Eu (1128 – 14 November 1180), was Archbishop of Dublin at the time of the Norman invasion of Ireland. Lorcán played a prominent role in the Irish Church ...

, the founder, was made Archbishop of Dublin. Diarmait Mac Murchadha, the

King of Leinster The kings of Leinster ( ga, Rí Laighín), ruled from the establishment of Leinster during the Irish Iron Age, until the 17th century Early Modern Ireland. According to Gaelic traditional history, laid out in works such as the ''Book of Invasio ...

, was likely involved in the monastery's foundation. St Saviour's is roughly contemporary with Ferns Abbey,

Baltinglass Abbey Baltinglass Abbey () is a ruined medieval Cistercian abbey in Baltinglass, County Wicklow, Ireland. Founded by Diarmait Mac Murchada in 1148, the abbey was suppressed in 1536. It is today a National Monument. History Founded in 1148 by Diarma ...

, and likely also

Killeshin Church Killeshin Church is a 12th-century Romanesque church and National Monument located in County Laois, Ireland. Location Killeshin Church is located near Killeshin village, on the south bank of the Fushoge River (a tributary of the Barrow), a ...

. It is located on a narrow

floodplain A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.Goudi ...

to the south-east of the core of the

monastic site. The priories relative isolation from the rest of the campus is thought to be a result of resentment towards the Augustinians by the long-established monastic community who occupied the site.

Architecture

St Saviour's is built in the Irish Romanesque style. The priory

church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Ch ...

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