Baltinglass Cistercian abbey is situated close to the banks of the river Slaney and somewhat hidden away deep in the Wicklow Mountains. Now on the outskirts of the town of Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow, the abbey was a more extensive foundation consisting of conventual buildings and a tower house (demolished in 1882 and used in the fabric of the Church of Ireland rectory). Although only part of the church survives above the ground, Baltinglass offers an excellent example of Romanesque architecture and sculpture, apparently the work of local masons - one known as the ‘Baltinglass master’ whose work is also evident in Jerpoint - and possibly of English West Country sculptors.
1148 x 1151: Baltinglass Cistercian abbey founded by Dermot MacMurrough, king of Leinster as a daughter-house of Mellifont
Before 1180: Ailbhe Ua Máel Muaid became abbot of Baltinglass. He was appointed bishop of Ferns in 1186
1180: The Cistercian abbey at Jerpoint, Co. Kilkenny became a daughter-house of Baltinglass
1185: John, Lord of Ireland, confirmed the extensive lands granted to Baltinglass by Dermot MacMurrough and his men
1227: Baltinglass was made subject to Furness Abbey in England and Abbot Malachy was deposed and replaced by an unnamed English abbot who failed to establish his authority in the monastery
1228: Despite being ordered to go to Fountains abbey in England by Abbot Stephen of Lexington, Malachy went to Citeaux and Rome with the abbey’s seals and charters
1295: A licence was granted by the King to the abbot of Baltinglass to negotiate with the local Irish who had raided the abbey’s lands to have their goods returned for a ransom
1380: The parliament enacted that no Irishman should be professed in a number of Cistercian abbeys including Baltinglass
1488: The abbot of Baltinglass received a pardon for being involved in the failed Lambert Simnel rebellion, which had sought to place a pretender on the throne of England in 1487
1536: The abbey was suppressed. John Galbally, the last abbot, received a pension of £10
1540-41: Inquisitions recorded the extent of the abbey as comprising a ruinous church, a castle, a hall with chamber, a ruinous kitchen, a dormitory with two cellars, a chamber with a store beneath, a granary and a water-mill and c. 2,300 acres of land and other buildings. This was all valued at £126 10s. 1d. The site of the monastery was granted to Thomas Fitzeustace, lord of Kilcullen, later viscount of Baltinglass
Following the Dissolution the church was deemed parochial and the east end continued in use as a Church of Ireland church until 1883, when it was replaced by a more modern building constructed beside it, and the abbey became a national monument
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