Monasterboice
Sign in to saveThe Monasterboice () ruins are the remains of an early Christian monastic settlement in County Louth in Ireland, north of Drogheda. The ruins are a national monument of Ireland and also give their name to the local village and to a civil parish of the same name.
Key facts
- Monastery.name
- Monasterboice
- Monastery.image
- A high cross and round tower at Monasterboice, Ireland.jpg
- Monastery.caption
- Round tower, high cross, church and gravestones at Monasterboice
- Monastery.established
- 5th century
- Monastery.disestablished
- 1097
- Monastery.founder
- Saint Buithe (Saint Buithe mac Bronach)
- Monastery.abbot
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- Monastery.abbess
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- Monastery.location
- County Louth, Ireland
- Monastery.map_type
- Ireland
- Monastery.public_access
- yes
- Designation list.embed
- yes
- Designation list.designation1
- Irish National Monument
- Designation list.designation1_number
- 94
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The Monasterboice () ruins are the remains of an early Christian monastic settlement in County Louth in Ireland, north of Drogheda. The ruins are a national monument of Ireland and also give their name to the local village and to a civil parish of the same name.
==Name== The name Monasterboice is a part-anglicisation of the Irish name meaning "monastery of Buithe". It was formerly anglicised as Monasterboye and Monasterboyse. Boice is the English version of the Latin name Boecius, which was adopted as the equivalent of the Irish Buithe.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Monasterboice” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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