friaries armagh

The ruins of the Franciscan friary founded by Archbishop Patrick Scannail in 1263-64. The surviving walls are those of the long nave-and-chancel church, into the centre of which a tower was inserted in the 15th century. Near the eastern end is a rare extant example of a medieval altar, and remnants of the south aisle are still visible at the western end of the nave. Nothing remains of the cloister which lay to the north of the church. After the friary was dissolved in 1542, the doors and wind...