Jerpoint Abbey

Jerpoint Abbey is a ruined Cistercian abbey, founded within the 2d half of the 12th century, close to Thomastown, County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is positioned 2.5 km south west from Thomastown at the R448 nearby street. There is a Visitor Centre with an exhibition. It has been d a national monument and has been within the care of the Office of Public Works on account that 1880. It became built with the aid of in 1180, by means of Donchadh Ó Donnchadha Mac Giolla Phátraic, the King of Osraige.

It turned into committed to the Blessed Virgin. Jerpoint is top notch for its stone carvings, along with one at the tomb of Felix O'Dulany, Bishop of the Diocese of Ossory. The abbey flourished till the Dissolution of the Monasteries through the English king Henry VIII. Jerpoint Abbey offers its call to the civil parish of Jerpoint Abbey or Abbey-Jerpoint inside the barony of Knocktopher. It lies close to the anciently corporate city of Newtown Jerpoint.