Kilcooly Abbey

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Kilcooley Abbey is a Cistercian abbey near the village of Gortnahoe in County Tipperary, Ireland.^[1] The abbey is located within the grounds of the Kilcooley Estate. This abbey dates from 1182 when Donal Mor O’Brien granted lands to the Cistercians, to build an abbey here. The abbey, which is a sister house to both Jerpoint Abbey and Holy Cross Abbey, is located inside a private walled estate. However, the abbey is open to the public.^{[citation needed]}

After the Reformation, Kilcooley passed into the possession of the Earl of Ormond. It was granted to the English-born judge Sir Jerome Alexander in the 1630s. It passed to his daughter Elizabeth, and then through marriage to the Barker baronets of Bocking Hall, the last of whom died in 1818.