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Kilwinning Abbey information


Kilwinning Abbey
Monastery information
OrderTironensian
Establishedcirca 1162 - 1168
Disestablished1592
Mother houseKelso Abbey
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Founder(s)Richard de Morville
Kilwinning's Main Street on a Sunday, shortly before a papingo shoot to be held at the Abbey tower to the right of the view.

Kilwinning Abbey is a ruined abbey located in the centre of the town of Kilwinning, North Ayrshire.

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Kilwinning Abbey

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Kilwinning Abbey is a ruined abbey located in the centre of the town of Kilwinning, North Ayrshire. Kilwinning was a Tironensian Benedictine monastic community...

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Kilwinning

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site of the abbey, its outbuildings, orchards, doocot, etc. The Kilwinning Community Archaeology Project carried out a dig in Kilwinning Abbey in 2010, which...

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Tunnels in popular culture

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Irvine, complete with a mythical piper. Monkredding was a property of Kilwinning Abbey and a tunnel is said to link the two properties. Another tunnel is...

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Abbey Park

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County Armagh, Northern Ireland Abbey Park, Kilwinning, the home ground of Kilwinning Rangers F.C. Park Abbey This disambiguation page lists articles about...

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Dryburgh Abbey

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sometime between 1169 and 1187, the abbey of Kilwinning in the lordship of Cunningham. Although Kilwinning Abbey was built on a grand scale, it was inadequately...

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Kilwinning Old Parish church

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Kerelaw Castle

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number of carved coats of arms of the Scottish nobility, taken from Kilwinning Abbey, Nine fishermen from Saltcoats were granted leases in 1545 in return...

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Lodge Mother Kilwinning

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Lodge Mother Kilwinning is a Masonic Lodge in Kilwinning, Scotland, under the auspices of the Grand Lodge of Scotland. It is number 0 (referred to as...

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Modern competitive archery

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the Ancient Society of Kilwinning Archers. The archers shoot at a wooden bird suspended from the steeple of Kilwinning Abbey. Here only one bird is the...

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Beith

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century the Barony of Beith was given to the Tironensian monks of Kilwinning Abbey by the wife of Sir Richard de Morville. The farm or Grange of the monks...

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Saltcoats

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The history of Saltcoats can be traced back to when the monks of Kilwinning Abbey discovered easily accessible coastal coal seams at Saltcoats in the...

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Richard de Morville

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(who viewed the cartulary of Kilwinning Abbey), it was Richard de Morville who founded the Tironensian abbey of Kilwinning, Cunningham. Pont cites a date...

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Kelso Abbey

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places in the Scottish Borders List of places in Scotland Borders Abbeys Way Kilwinning Abbey Moffat, A., (2006). Kelsae: A History of Kelso from Earliest...

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Hill of Beith Castle

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Ayrshire, Scotland. The Tironensian monks of Kilwinning Abbey held a Grange or farmland at Beith, given to the abbey by Sir William de Cunninghame in the early...

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Lands of Sevenacres

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Sevenacres known locally as Snacres were originally part of the holdings of Kilwinning Abbey in North Ayrshire, Scotland. The Laird of Sevenacres's residence once...

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List of monastic houses in Scotland

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of page Irvine Whitefriars Kilwinning Abbey Return to top of page Return to top of page Ayr Greyfriars Crossraguel Abbey Dalmilling Priory Fail Monastery...

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Bernard of Kilwinning

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Bernard is unrecorded as abbot of Kilwinning after this year, but it is possible that he was ejected from Kilwinning Abbey by the English king in one of the...

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Eglinton Country Park

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Castle estate in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, Scotland (map reference NS 3227 4220). Eglinton Park is situated in the parish of Kilwinning, part of the former...

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Clan Cunningham

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Robert also killed the Earl of Glencairn's brother the Commendator of Kilwinning Abbey, Alexander of Montgreenan, thought to have instigated Hugh's murder...

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List of oldest buildings in Scotland

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2012. McAleer, J. Philip (1995). Towards an architectural history of Kilwinning Abbey. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 125 pp. 841-853. "Egilsay, St Magnus's Church"...

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Tironensian Order

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Congregation of St Maur in 1627. Caldey Priory Kelso Abbey Kilwinning Abbey Pill Priory St Dogmaels Abbey Notes Apparently from the Latin "thironium", a high...

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Abbot of Kilwinning

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The Abbot of Kilwinning (later Commendator of Kilwinning) was the head of the Tironensian monastic community and lands of Kilwinning Abbey, Cunningham...

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Clan Montgomery

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Robert also killed the Earl of Glencairn's brother the Commendator of Kilwinning Abbey, Alexander of Montgreenan, thought to have instigated Hugh's murder...

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Eglinton Castle

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mansion in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The ancient seat of the Earls of Eglinton, it is located just south of the town of Kilwinning. The original...

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Archaeological excavation

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Kilwinning Abbey Dig...

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Walter Bailloch

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Kilcalmonell at Clachan to the monks of Paisley. He also made grants to Kilwinning Abbey of churches in Knapdale, which show that he had possession of North...

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