Strade Abbey is a former

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/ Dominican

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and

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located in

County Mayo County Mayo (; ga, Contae Mhaigh Eo, meaning "Plain of the Taxus baccata, yew trees") is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. In the West Region, Ireland, West of Ireland, in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Conn ...

, Ireland.

Location

Strade Abbey is located in the eastern part of

Strade Straide (), or Strade, is a village in County Mayo, Ireland. It is located on the N58 national secondary road between Foxford and Castlebar. The name Strade is an anglicisation of the Irish words ''an tsráid'', meaning ''the street''. Straid ...

village.

History

Strade Friary was founded by

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, or his son Stephen, at the bequest of Jordan's wife Basilia, daughter of

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. It was inhabited by the

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(Observant Franciscan Friars), before being refounded by the

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in 1252/53. It was burned in 1254. In 1266, Thomas, bishop of Lismore, acknowledges to have ‘received at

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, on 2 July 1266, from Friar Henry de Siscle and Friar John Matugan adden of the Dominican convent of Athletan traide the sum of 28½

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, Crusade money, collected by them and their brethren in their own district. In 1434

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granted an

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to all who would give help towards the restoration of Strade Abbey. Strade Friary was dissolved in 1578 and leased to James Garvey. In 1588 a lease of the abbey was granted to Patrick Barnewall for forty years. In 1756, there were seven friars in Strade Abbey, and four in 1767. Fr. Patrick D. Kelly, the last of the friars of Strade, died c. 1858.

Building

The buildings that remain are of the 13th–15th centuries, including a magnificent tomb in the north part of the

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References

{{Reflist Franciscan monasteries in the Republic of Ireland Dominican monasteries in the Republic of Ireland Religion in County Mayo Archaeological sites in County Mayo National Monuments in County Mayo