rosserk friary

Rosserk Friary was founded as a Franciscan Third Order Conventual Friary, this time by the Joyce Family in 1441. Like Moyne Abbey it was destroyed by Bingham. The church here is a cruciform one, with a bell-tower suspended over the chancel arch - an interesting architectural feature. Rosserk Friary and Moyne Abbey are located close to each other, north of Ballina. Moyne was founded by the Burke Family as a Franciscan friary. Built in the late Irish Gothic Style, it was consecrated in 1462. This abbey was destroyed in the 1590s by Queen Elizabeth's governor of Connacht, Sir Richard Bingham.