Glenluce Abbey

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Glenluce Abbey

Monastery information
Order Cistercian
Mother house Dundrennan Abbey
Established 1192
Disestablished 1602
Diocese Diocese of Galloway
Controlled churches Glenluce
People
Founder Lochlann, Lord of Galloway
Location {{{location}}}
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Glenluce Abbey, near to Glenluce, Scotland, was a Cistercian monastery founded around 1190 by Lochlann, Lord of Galloway. Following the Scottish Reformation in 1560, the abbey fell into disuse.


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Cistercian monasteries in Scotland
Melrose filiation (from Rievaulx)
Balmerino Abbey (1227) • Coupar Angus Abbey (1164) • Culross Abbey (1217) * • Deer Abbey (1219) * • Holmcultram Abbey (1150) ** • Kinloss Abbey (1150) • Melrose Abbey (1136) • Newbattle Abbey (1140)
Dundrennan filiation (from Rievaulx)
Dundrennan Abbey (1142) • Glenluce Abbey (1192) • Sweetheart Abbey (1273)
Mellifont filiation *** (from Cîteaux)
Saddell Abbey (1207) • [ ? Soulseat Abbey (1148) ] ****
* Founded by Kinloss Abbey.
** In England, but at the time of foundation (1150), part of the territory of David I, King of Scots.
*** Meaning from Mellifont Abbey in Ireland, founded in 1142.
**** If it existed, it was shortly afterwards replaced by a Premonstratensian establishment.

Coordinates: 54°53′21″N, 4°49′53″W

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