Ballintubber Abbey

An Augustinian abbey founded in 1216 by Cathal Crobhdearg O'Conor, king of Connacht, and remarkable for having remained in continuous use for worship despite suppression and burning. The restored church retains its medieval chancel and transepts, and serves as the traditional starting point of the pilgrim path to Croagh Patrick. Carved capitals and a fifteenth-century cloister survive around the building. Its unbroken religious life over eight centuries has earned it the description of the abbey that refused to die.