This is a list of the monastic houses in County Carlow, Ireland.
| width=15% | Foundation | width=5% | Image | width=30% | Communities & Provenance | width=20% | Formal Name or Dedication & Alternative Names | OnLine References & Location |
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| Acaun Monastery #, | supposed monastic site — order and period unknown | 52.842°N -6.7173°W (approx) | ||||||
| Agha Monastery | Gaelic monks founded 6th century by St Fintan; possibly not surviving after 10th century | Achad-finglass; Achadfinglass; Achad-Urghlais; Augha | [1] [2] 52.7166°N -6.9198°W (approx) | |||||
| Aghade Priory | Augustinian — Arroasian nuns dependent on Dublin; cell of St Mary de Hogges, Dublin; founded 1151 by Dermot mac Murchard, King of Leinster; dissolved before 1500? | Athaddy; Athade; Athad; Aghadh; Aghade Nunnery; Ath-fhadhat | [3] [4] 52.76°N -6.7366°W | |||||
| Athkiltan ~ | Knights Templar manor, possibly located in County Carlow | Takyltan | ||||||
| Ballymoon Preceptory ø | supposed (though dubious) establishment of Knights Templar purportedly founded c.1300 no record of preceptory found | Bally MacWilliam-roe; Bally-M'William-Row; Baile-mic-Uilliam | 52.7001°N -6.9071°W | |||||
| Carlow Monastery | Gaelic monks founded before 601-2 by St Comgal of Bangor, site granted by Cormac, King of Ui Bairrche | Cathair-lach; Ceithiorlach | 52.8343°N -6.9255°W | |||||
| Poor Clare Monastery Carlow, | Monastery of Perpetual Adoration ____________________ Poor Clares founded 19th century | [5] 52.8364°N -6.9407°W | ||||||
| Clonmore Monastery | Gaelic monks founded 6th century by St Mogue; possibly not surviving after 10th century; church burnt 1040 | Cluain-mor-maedoc; Clonemore | [6] 52.8273°N -6.5693°W | |||||
| Domnach-feic Monastery | early monastic site, founded 5th century (in the time of St Patrick) by St Fiace | Domnach-feich | ||||||
| Dunleckney Preceptory # | purported Knights Templar founded 1300; dissolved 1308[7] | Leighlinbridge Preceptory? | 52.7081°N -6.9537°W | |||||
| Kilfortchearn Monastery | early monastic site, purportedly founded 5th century (in the time of St Patrick) by St Fortchern, bishop | Cell-foirtcheirn; Ui Drona | ||||||
| Killerig Preceptory | Knights Templar founded before 1212 (in the reign of King John) by Gilbert de Borard; Knights Hospitaller dissolved 1540; granted to the wife of Gerard Aylmer 1590; leased to James Sherlock of Waterford | The Preceptory of St John the Baptist ____________________ Killargy; Killarge; Friarstown | 52.846°N -6.7929°W | |||||
| Leighlin Abbey + | Gaelic monks founded c.600 by St Gobban; episcopal diocesan cathedral; destroyed by fire c.1060; new cathedral built 12th-13th century; extant; secular canons purportedly instituted at the cathedral by Bishop John Mulgan (Seaán Ó Maolagáin) c.1422; dissolved 1567 | Old Leighlin Abbey; Leth-glenn | 52.736°N -7.0256°W | |||||
| Leighlin Friary ≈ | Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regular — erroneous reference to the friary of Bakil, Wicklow[8] | |||||||
| Leighlin Priory | Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian founded after 1163? at the instance of St Lawrence O'Toole (dubious reference to 9th century foundation by Burchard, son of Gurmund, a Norwegian); dissolved c.1392; petition for suppression and appropriation to the cathedral chapter granted by the Pope to the Bishop (Thomas Fleming) 1432 | St Stephen | ||||||
| Leighlinbridge Priory | Carmelite monks founded 1265-72 (before the death of Henry III) by a member of the Carew family; dissolved before 1541; converted into a fort; restored, convent in existence c.1737 | Priory of St Mary | 52.7355°N -6.9785°W | |||||
| Leighlinbridge Preceptory ≈ | Knights Templar apparently same as Dunleckney Preceptory (supra) | |||||||
| Lorum Monastery | Gaelic monks patron St Laseroam (Molaise) | Leamhdruim | 52.6635°N -6.929°W | |||||
| St Mullin's Monastery | Gaelic monks founded 7th century; (NM) | Achad Cainida; Tech-moling; Thamoling; Temolyn; Shymylyng; Thacineling; Thacmoling | [9] 52.4889°N -6.9276°W | |||||
| St Mullin's Abbey | early monastic site, founded 632 by St Molling, site purportedly granted by St Aidan, Bishop of Ferns; purported Augustinian Canons Regular (no documentation of foundation); plundered and burnt before 1138; (NM) | [10] 52.4889°N -6.9276°W | ||||||
| St Mullins Friary | Franciscan Friars, license granted 1414 — no evidence foundation ever implemented | |||||||
| Tullow Abbey # | Augustinian Friars founded 1314 by Simon Lumbard and Hugh Talun who granted site; dissolved 1541?; granted to Thomas, Earl of Ormond, December 1557 | Tully; Tullagh; Tealach-fortchern; Tuluch-ua-bfeidhlimidh; Tullowphelim; Tullyfelim; Laghia; The Black Abbey | [11] 52.803°N -6.7327°W | |||||
| Tullow Friary | Carmelite Friars, given in state papers and listed 1645 — no other evidence of foundation | |||||||
| Tullow Monastery # | early monastic site, founded 5th century? | |||||||