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Black Abbey

location_on Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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About Black Abbey

The Black Abbey of Kilkenny, Ireland, is a Catholic priory of the Dominican Order, dedicated to the Holy and Undivided Trinity. Black Abbey became established in 1225 as one of the first houses of the Dominican Order in Ireland. The records of the Black Abbey is marked by several reversals of fortune below one of a kind governments. The call Black Abbey derives from the usage of the time period "Black Friars" to explain contributors of the Dominican Order. This in flip derives from the black cappa or cloak which Dominicans wear over their white behavior. When the priory changed into founded the 13th century, the town of Kilkenny changed into divided in components by way of the Bregach River.

One element became occupied particularly through indigenous Irish and the opposite by using English settlers. The Dominicans set up the priory between the ones two towns and out of doors the metropolis walls, due to the fact they wished to reveal their independence from either facet. In practical phrases, the web site chosen for the priory presented challenges, due to the fact ever because the priory become installed, proper as much as the prevailing time, the homes are situation to annual flooding from the river.

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