List of monastic houses in Scotland

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|Church of Scotland

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|Aberdeen Blackfriars

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|Dominican Friars
founded between 1230 and 1249, purportedly by Alexander II;
destroyed by Reformers 4 January 1560;
secularised between 1560 and 1587; granted to George, Earl Marischal 17 May 1587;
site currently occupied by Robert Gordon's College, Schoolhill - see Parson Gordon's 1661 map showing "Blackfreers".

|St John the Baptist

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|Aberdeen Greyfriars

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|Observant Franciscan Friars
founded 1469;
secularised 29 December 1559; friars resigned entire possession over to the Town Council;
granted to the Town Council by James VI 30 December 1567 for conversion into a hospital;
extant buildings passed to George, Earl Marischal 22 September 1593;
church became derelict until 1624;
restored 1624 by the citizens; in parochial use until 1903

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|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/20146/details/aberdeen+greyfriars+church/ Site Record for Aberdeen, Greyfriars Church Marischal College; Grey Friar's Monastery; Aberdeen, Franciscan Friary Details]
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|Aberdeen Monastery

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|Benedictine monks
supposed establishment;
founded before 3 April 1231, when the Pope granted the use of the church of Culdedono to the abbot and convent 'de Aberdona';
possibly no monastic foundation here

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|Aberdeen Nunnery

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|purported nuns of unspecified order — no evidence of such a foundation

|St Catherine

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|Aberdeen Preceptory

|colspan=4|property of Knights Templars, 'convent and church' are fictitious

|Aberdeen Red Friars

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|Trinitarians
founded before 1274 (1181Aberdeen Red Friars — foundation date 1181 given by Father R. A. Hay, Scotia Sacre (MS.34.1.18 in the National Library of Scotland), p.70); (William the Lion reputedly granted his royal residence in Aberdeen to two red friars 1211);
secularised 1561

|The Church of the Holy Trinity, Aberdeen

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/20163/details/aberdeen+trinitarian+monastery/ Site Record for Aberdeen, Trinitarian Monastery Trinity Friars' Monastery Details]
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|Aberdeen Whitefriars

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|Carmelite Friars
founded c. 1273: grant made by Reginald le Chen;
dissolved 1560-83;
passed through several ownerships, eventually granted to the Town Council by James VI 26 October 1583

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|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/20171/details/aberdeen+carmelite+friary/ Site Record for Aberdeen, Carmelite Friary 12 St Martin's Lane; 2-12 Rennie's Wynd; The Green; Carmelite Monastery Details]

{{cite journal |author1=Alison Cameron |author2=Judith A. Stones |author3=Chris Croly |title=Excavations at Aberdeen's Carmelite Friary, 1980-1994 |journal=Internet Archaeology |volume=52 |issue=52 |date=2019 |doi=10.11141/ia.52.1 |doi-access=free }}

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|Aberdour Monastery

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|Celtic monks
traditionally founded by Colum Cille and Drostan mac Coscrach, his disciple — provenance doubtful

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|Aberdour Priory

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|Franciscan nuns
founded 1548 by James, Earl of Morton;
secularised 1560, leased to Earl of Morton 18 August 1560

|Aberdene Priory (erroneous{{citation needed|date=November 2017}})

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|Aboyne Preceptory

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|Knights Templar
church granted by Walter Byset, confirmed by Ralph, Bishop of Aberdeen — supposed house

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|Banff Greyfriars

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|supposed Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual
convent; confusion with Carmelite houseBanff Greyfriars — Collections for a History of the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff (Spalding Club, 1843), p.205

|St John

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|Banff Whitefriars

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|Carmelite Friars
founded 1321-4, chapel of Our Lady granted by Robert I 21 April 1321, confirmed by him 1 August 1323;
burned 20 July 1559;
dissolved or secularised 1574, granted to King's College, Aberdeen by James VI 10 September 1574

|Priory of Bethlem of ye ordour of Carmelits beside Banff

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/18468/details/duff+house+mausoleum+and+st+mary+s+well/ Site Record for Duff House, Mausoleum And St Mary's Well Carmelite Monastery; Our Lady Chapel; St Mary's Chapel; Duff House Estate; Duff House Policies Details]
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|Buchan Priory

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|grant to the canons of St James's, Buchan by the Pope 18 October 1221 - no known house or churches held by regular canons in Buchan, Aberdeenshire - possibly erroneous reference to a location outside Scotland

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|Clova Monastery

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|Celtic monks
dependent on Mortlach;
founded before 1157 by St Moluag, reference in bull of Adrian IV who confirmed it to the Bishop of Aberdeen

|Clovett Monastery;
St Luke's Chapel

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/17232/details/clova+st+luke+s+chapel+and+well/ Site Record for Clova, St Luke's Chapel And Well Sammiluak's Chapel; Monastery Of Clovett Details]
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|Deer Abbey

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|Celtic monks
traditionally founded 6th C by Colum Cille — provenance unreliable
Cistercian monks
daughter house of Kinloss
founded 1214/19 by William Comyn, Earl of Buchan;
dissolved 1560; erected to a temporal lordship for Robert Keith, becoming Lord Altrie, (charter 1587); (HS)

|The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Deer

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/20582/details/deer+abbey/ Site Record for Deer Abbey Old Deer Abbey; Cistercian Abbey Of Deer Details]
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|Drumtochty Whitefriars

|colspan=4|lands granted to the Carmelite Friars of Aberdeen 1403; supposed foundation – no house existed

|Dunet Red Friars

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|purported Trinitarians
allegedly founded 1297 — supposed house – probably fictitious

|Dumeni;
Dunetum;
Dumenum

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|Ecclesgreig Monastery

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|Celtic monks
church of Ecclesgyrg granted to St Andrews by Richard, Bishop of St Andrews, confirmed to St Andrews by William the Lion between 1189 and 1195

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|Forvie Preceptory

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|Knights Templar — King's College described as a former Templars' houseForvie Preceptory: Collections for a History of the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff (Spalding Club, 1843), p.217

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|Fyvie Priory

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|Tironensian monks
dependent on Arbroath;
founded in or before 1285, granted to Arbroath by Reginald le Chen (Cheyne); (asserted foundation 1179 by Fergus, Earl of Buchan likely to be confusion with parish church foundation);
united with Arbroath by the Pope 21 August 1459 on petition of the abbot and convent of Arbroath;
dissolution unknown, possibly survived to the Reformation

|The Priory Church of The Blessed Virgin Mary and All Saints, Fyvie

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/19069/details/fyvie+priory+and+priory+cross/ Site Record for Fyvie, Priory And Priory Cross Fivue Priory; Fyvie Priory Cross Details]
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|Kennethmont Cell

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|monks of unspecified order — purported cell burned down at the Reformation; purported collegiate foundation;
parish church, no evidence of monastic foundation

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|Monymusk Priory

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|Culdees
founded 1138;
Augustinian Canons Regular
refounded c. 1245;
dissolved 1617

|The Priory Church of Saint Mary and Saint John, Monymusk
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erroneously Monymaill in Fyfe

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/18053/details/monymusk+priory/ Site Record for Monymusk Priory Priory Of Monymusk Details][http://www.monymusk.com/index.asp?subsec=6 Monymusk.com - History Index : The Priory] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011142109/http://www.monymusk.com/index.asp?subsec=6 |date=11 October 2007 }}
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|Mortlach Monastery

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|traditional early site of the bishopric of Aberdeen

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|Tullich Preceptory

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|Knights Templar
given as a residence of Templars,Tullich Preceptory — J. Spottiswoode, An account of all the Religious Houses that were in Scotland at the time of the Reformation (included in R. Keith, An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops (Edinburgh, 1824)), p.435 actually a parochial church held by the Templars and later the HospitallersTullich Preceptory — Templaria: Papers relative to the history, privileges and possessions of the Scottish Knights Templars, and their successors the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem (1828), pp.5,7; Abstracts of charters and other papers recorded in the chartulary of Torphichen from 1581 to 1596 (Edinburgh, 1830), p.9

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|Turriff Monastery

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|Celtic monks
founded before 1131;
dissolved after c. 1150

|St Congan's Church

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/19164/details/turriff+celtic+monastery/ Site Record for Turriff, 'Celtic Monastery' Details]
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|Arbroath Abbey

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|Tironensian monks — from Kelso
founded 1176 (1178) by William the Lion;
church dedicated 8 May 1233;
church damaged by lightning 1380, monks removed temporarily to other locations during repairs;
mitred abbey 26 June 1396;
dissolved 1606

|The Abbey Church of Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Arbroath

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/222123/details/arbroath+abbey+conventual+building/ Site Record for Arbroath Abbey, Conventual Building Details]
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|Barry Red Friars

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|purported Trinitarians
supposedly founded 1212 by William the Lion,Barry Red Friars – Father R. A. Hay, Diplomatum Veterum Collectio. (MS. 34-1.10 in the National Library of Scotland), iii, p.573 built and endowed by Alexander II — supposed house – fictional

|domus Barensis

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|Brechin Monastery

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|Culdees
probably founded before 975;
site now occupied by Brechin Cathedral, a congregation of the Church of Scotland.

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|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/35055/details/brechin+cathedral/ Site Record for Brechin Cathedral Brechin Parish Church; Brechin Round Tower; Round Tower, Brechin; Cathedral Of The See Of Brechin Details]
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|Brechin Red Friars

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|Trinitarians
purportedly founded 1256 by "Edward, Bishop of Brechin"Brechin Red Friars – Father R. A. Hay, Diplomatum Veterum Collectio. (MS. 34-1.10 in the National Library of Scotland), iii, p.579 (no such bishop), or c. 1258 by David IBrechin Red Friars – Manuscript collections of Father Marianus Brockie (Scottish Catholic Archives, Edinburgh), p.1081 — reliable evidence lacking

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|Brechin Whitefriars?

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|supposed Carmelite Friars
founded 1376 (in the tenure of Stephen Dempster, Bishop of Brechin) by Malcolm Dempster, Baron of Careston — supposed foundation – details unsubstantiated

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|Dundee Blackfriars

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|Dominican Friars
founded c. 1521, benefactions by Andrew Abercromby, Burgess of Dundee; (charters 4 September 1315, 1345 and 1388 not considered authentic);
petition to the pope by Scottish provincial 16 September 1517 to establish the house; sacked by mob August 1543; probably destroyed November 1548 when the English burned the town

|dedication unknown

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/33501/details/dundee+barrack+street+dominican+monastery/ Site Record for Dundee, Barrack Street, Dominican Monastery Details]
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|Dundee Greyfriars

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|Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual
founded before 1289 by Devorgilla;Dundee Greyfriars — foundation: Joannis de Fordun Scotichronicon cum Supplementis et Continuatione Walteri Boweri, ed. Goodall (Edinburgh, 1759): lib. viii, cap. xxv; ibid, i, 474; J. Spottiswoode, An account of all the Religious Houses that were in Scotland at the time of the Reformation (included in R. Keith, An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops (Edinburgh, 1824)), p.489
built before 1296;Dundee Greyfriars — date of building: Documents Illustrative of the History of Scotland 1286-1306, ed. J. Stevenson (Edinburgh, 1870), ii, no.484
dissolved or secularised c. 1560

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|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/33459/details/dundee+the+houff+franciscan+friary/ Site Record for Dundee, The Houff, Franciscan Friary Greyfriars' Monastery Details]
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|Dundee Priory

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|Franciscan nuns
founded 1501/2 by James Fotheringham (spurious charter of grant by James Graham of Fintry and Claverhouse);
secularised 1560, the Magistrates of Dundee confirmed in possession 14 April 1567

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|Dundee Red Friars

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|purported Trinitarians
purportedly founded 1283 by Sir James Scrymgeour; probably hospital – reference to monastic house probably erroneous

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|Kettins Red Friars

|colspan=2|purported Trinitarians
parish church appropriated to hospital of bridge of Berwick, and thereafter to the Trinitarians — no Trinitarian house

|Katnes;
Ketnes

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|Monifieth Monastery

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|Culdees
founded 12thC;
secularised by c. 1220: land granted to Nicholas, witness to charters of Countess Matilda, by Earl Malcolm c. 1220;
land granted to Arbroath 1242-3

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|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/33407/details/dundee+monifieth+st+regulus+church+and+burial+ground/ Site Record for Dundee, Monifieth, St Regulus' Church And Burial-Ground Details]
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|Restenneth Priory

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|possible early foundation built c. 710 at the instance of Nechtan, King of the Picts;
Augustinian Canons Regular
founded between 1161 and 1162, St Peter's church granted to Jedburgh by Malcolm IV;
dissolved or secularised 1606

|St Peter
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Restennet Priory;
Rostin Priory;
Rostinoth Priory;
Roslin Priory (erroneous reference)

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/33745/details/restenneth+priory/ Site Record for Restenneth Priory Strathmore Estate Details]
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|Artchain Monastery,
Tiree

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|Celtic monks
founded 6thC? by Findchan, contemporary of Colum Cille

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|Ardchattan Priory

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|Celtic monks
founded by Findchan;
Valliscaulian monks — from Val des Choux
founded 1230/1;
part of church in parochial use to 1722;
site now largely occupied by Victorian house; (HS)

|The Priory Church of Saint John the Baptist, Ardchattan

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/23259/details/ardchattan+priory/ Site Record for Ardchattan Priory Ardchattan Priory Church; Ardchattan House Details]
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|Bledach Monastery,
Tiree

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|Celtic monks
founded before 577 by Brendan, founder abbot of Clonfert

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|Cara Red Friars

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|purported Trinitarians
asserted cell;
chapel only, no Trinitarian foundation

|St Fionnlugh's Chapel

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/38592/digital_images/cara+st+fionnlugh+s+chapel/?&sort_typ=description&sort_ord=asc Site Record for Cara, St Fionnlugh's Chapel St Finla's Digital_images]
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|Cella Diuni, Loch Awe

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|Celtic monks
possibly founded by Diun

|St Columba's Church;
Kilneuair

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/22788/details/kilneuair+st+columba+s+church+and+churchyard/ Site Record for Kilneuair, St Columba's Church And Churchyard St Columba's Chapel Details]
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|Colonsay Abbey

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|Augustinian Canons Regular
asserted abbey; evidence of monastic house lacking

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|Garvellach Islands Monastery

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|traditionally founded late-6thC by Brendan, founder abbot of Clonfert;
probably on the island of Eileach an Naoimh

|Ailech Monastery
Eileach-an-Naoimh Monastery

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|Hinba Monastery

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|Celtic monks
founded before 597 by Colum Cille, probably on the island of Jura

|possibly Jura Monastery (v. infra)

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|Inchkenneth Monastery ?

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|purported monastery – island in ownership of Iona Nunnery — evidence of parish church only

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|Inchmarnock Monastery

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|purported cell of monks — parish church only – island held by Crossraguel, exchanged with Saddell 17 January 1390/1 — no evidence of monastic foundation

|Inchmernock

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|Inishail Priory

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|supposed Cistercian nuns
remains of a building purportedly a nunnery;
purportedly granted to Hay, Abbot of Inchaffray
actually a parochial church appropriated by Inchaffray — supposed priory fictitious

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|Iona Abbey ⁺

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|Celtic monks
founded c. 565 by Colum Cille;
plundered by the Norse 795 and 802;
Benedictine monks
abbey founded 1203;
dubiously conjectured to have been TironensianIona Abbey — Tironensian: conjectured by W. F. Skene, Celtic Scotland, Edinburgh (1867)
dissolved 1587/8(?);
cathedral, request made by the Crown to the Pope 1 April 1498 to establish a see pending the recovery of the see in the Isle of Man from the English, apparently unsuccessful, the monks holding the abbey in commendam from 1499; no evidence of a cathedral chapter being established;
now restored and in use as ecumenical Christian community;
(HS)

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|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/21664/details/iona+iona+abbey/ Site Record for Iona, Iona Abbey Iona, St Mary's Cathedral; St Mary's Abbey Details]
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|Iona Priory

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|Augustinian Canonesses
founded before 1208, purportedly by Ragnall mac Somairle (Reginald, son of Somerled);
secularised after 1574, granted to Hector McLean of Duart; (HS)

|St Mary
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|Jura Monastery

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|possibly Hinba Monastery

|Hinba Monastery? (v. supra)

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|Kerrara Priory

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|Cistercian monks
apparent intended foundation after 1292 never implemented;
no evidence of monastic foundation or occupation by monks on the island

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|Kingarth Monastery

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|Celtic monks
founded 6thC, purportedly by St Blane; seat of bishopric; (HS)

|Cinngrad Monastery

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/40292/details/bute+st+blane+s+church/ Site Record for Bute, St Blane's Church Kingarth; Saint Mary's Chapel, Saint Blane's Chapel Details]
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|Lismore Monastery

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|founded before 592 by Lugaid or Moluag

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|Mag Luinge, Tiree

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|founded before 597; probably at Soroby;
destroyed by fire 673;
restored

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|Oronsay Priory

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|Augustinian Canons Regular
founded before 1353 (1330), accredited to John, Lord of the Isles;
dissolved or secularised 1617, land granted to the Bishop of the Isles by James VI 15 February 1616

|The Priory Church of Saint Oran, Oronsay

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/37822/details/oronsay+priory/ Site Record for Oronsay Priory Details]
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|Rothesay Abbey

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|ruined church possibly referred to as St Mary's AbbeyRothesay Abbey: Ecclesiastical Architecture, iii, p.418 — evidently medieval parish church – no monastic foundation

|'St Mary'

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|Saddell Abbey

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|Cistercian monks
daughter house of Mellifont, Louth, Ireland;
founded before 1207 by Reginald, son of Somerled, Lord of the Isles;
dissolved c. 1507; confirmed to the Bishop by James VI 1 January 1507

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|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/38866/details/saddell+abbey/ Site Record for Saddell Abbey Cistercian Saddell Abbey; Saddell Water; Allt Nam Manach Details]
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|Sgòr Nam Ban-Naomha Monastery

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|Texa Cell

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|purported monks' cellTexa Cell — Joannis de Fordun Scotichronicon cum Supplementis et Continuatione Walteri Boweri, ed. Goodall (Edinburgh, 1759) lib. ii, cap x; i. p.45
evidence of church — cell apocryphal

|Helentexa

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|Tiree Monastery

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|founded c. 564-565 by Comgall, founder abbot of Bangor;
soon abandoned due to raids by the Picts

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|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/21427/details/tiree/ Site Record for Tiree Details][http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/21440/details/tiree/ Site Record for Tiree Details]
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|Mauchline Priory

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|Cistercian monks
grange or 'cell' of Melrose
founded 1165, purportedly by David I

|The Priory Church of Saint Cuthbert, Mauchline

|[http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townhistory471.html Historical perspective for Mauchline]

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|Fintray Priory

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|supposed Tironensian monks house
built c. 1386, determined to be imaginary

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|Holy Island

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|purported monastery traditionally founded by Ranald, King of the Isles and Argyll or Johne, Lorde of the iles (probably John of Islay); island possessed by Iona — no evidence of monastic foundation

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|Irvine Whitefriars

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|Carmelite Friars
probably founded before 1293 by a Fullerton of Fullerton;
dissolved or secularised 1572; granted to the Royal School of Irvine by James VI 8 June 1572

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|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/41956/details/irvine+fullarton/ Site Record for Irvine, Fullarton Details]
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|Kilwinning Abbey

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|Tironensian monks  from Kelso
founded between 1162 and 1189;
dissolved 1592

|The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and Saint Winning, Kilwinning

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/42113/details/kilwinning+abbey/ Site Record for Kilwinning Abbey Details][http://www.kilwinning.org/abbey/default.htm Kilwinning Abbey, Kilwinning]
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|Kilwinning Convent

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|Situated at Stanecastle and mentioned in several charters

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|Southannan Priory

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|Franciscan nuns
spurious charter of William, Lord Semple;
purportedly reduced to ashes at the Reformation; supposed foundation – spurious provenance; only chapel of St Anandi and graveyard chantry mentioned at the site

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|[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/sc-14311-ruin-of-old-abbey-southannan-fairlie-west Ruin of Old Abbey Southannan, Fairlie - West Kilbride - North Ayrshire - Scotland | British Listed Buildings]

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|Holy Island Monastery

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|Tibetan Buddhist

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|Ayr Blackfriars

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|Dominican Friars
founded before August 1242 (1230) by Alexander II, who endowed the church;
leased by the Crown 4 June 1565; secularised 1567, granted to the Burgh of Ayr by charter of Queen Mary 14 April 1567;
demolished after the Reformation

|The Friary Church of Saint Katherine, Ayr

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|Ayr Greyfriars

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|Observant Franciscan Friars
founded 1474 (1472, or between 1488 and 1497), attributed to the citizens;
dissolved or secularised 1567;

|St John the Baptist
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Auld Kirk of Ayr

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/41840/details/ayr+kirk+port+auld+kirk+of+ayr/ Site Record for Ayr, Kirk Port, Auld Kirk Of Ayr Kirkport, Old Parish Church; Church Of Scotland Details]
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|Crossraguel Abbey

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|Cluniac monks
oratory founded before 1214-16 (1244);
raised to abbey status, dependent on Paisley from before 1270;
dissolved 1617; (HS)

|The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Crossraguel

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/40830/details/crossraguel+abbey/ Site Record for Crossraguel Abbey Crossraguel; Corsregal, St Mary's Abbey Details][http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/propertyresults/propertyoverview.htm?PropID=PL_079&PropName=Crossraguel%20Abbey Historic Scotland - Crossraguel Abbey Property Detail][http://www.maybole.org/places/crossraguel/abbey.htm Crossraguel Abbey][http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/scotland/ayrshire/featured-sites/crossraguel-abbey.html Crossraguel Abbey | Mysterious Britain & Ireland] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216140202/http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/scotland/ayrshire/featured-sites/crossraguel-abbey.html |date=16 December 2008 }}
{{coord|57.148603

|Dalmilling Priory

|

|Gilbertine Canons and nuns — double house
founded 1219-28;
dissolved 1238

|Dalmulin Priory

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/41724/details/dalmilling/ Site Record for Dalmilling Details]
{{coord|55.338825

|Fail Monastery

|150px

|Trinitarians
founded before 1335;
dissolved 1561

|St Mary
____________________
Failford Abbey;
Fail Monastery, Tarbolton

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/42720/details/fail+monastery/ Site Record for Fail Monastery Details]
{{coord|55.5260056

|Fail Crutched Friars

|

|supposed Crutched Friars
possible confusion with Trinitarian monastery

|Pful Friary;
Phall Friary;
Faill Friary;
Fayl in Scotia Friary

|

|Fail Priory

|

|supposed Cluniac monks
probable confusion with Trinitarian monastery

|Feale Monastery

|

|Kar Monastery

|

|Order of Vaudey — no record of monks residing here; land granted to Melrose in perpetual lease 1223; (alternatively given as located in Galloway)

|

|

|Ladykirk Preceptory

|

|Knights Templar
secular chapel founded c. 1446 by John Blair — misleading references to preceptory

|Our Lady Kirk of Kyle

|

|Lochfeal Red Friars

|colspan=4|purported Trinitarians — no such house

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!width = 10%|Online references & location

|Canonbie Priory

|150px

|Augustinian Canons Regular
dependent on Jedbugh;
founded between before 1165 and 1170;
dissolved or secularised 1606

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/67847/details/canonbie+priory/ Site Record for Canonbie Priory Halgreen; 'House Of Liddel'; Park House Details]
{{coord|55.0736777

|Dercongal Abbey

|150px

|Premonstratensian Canons — from Soulseat
founded before 1225, founder unknown;Dercongal Abbey — Manuscript 33.2.12, National Library of Scotland, gives founder as Devorgilla, daughter of Alan of Galloway; evidently a confusion with Sweetheart Abbey
dissolved or secularised 1609

| The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Holywood
____________________
Holywood Abbey

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/65500/details/holywood+abbey/ Site Record for Holywood Abbey Premonstratensian Abbey Of Holywood Or Dercongal Details]
{{coord|55.1004623

|Dumfries Blackfriars

|

|supposed Dominican FriarsDumfries Blackfriars — Manuscript 22.1.14, 153 f., National Library of ScotlandDumfries Blackfriars — erroneous entry in J. Spottiswoode, History of the Church of Scotland (1677 Ed.) Appendix, p.16 (25)Dumfries Blackfriars — erroneous reference to Friars Preachers (correctly Friars Minor) in Dumfries list (NX 9776), 1 May 1579 (Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum, iv, no.32)

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/65605/details/dumfries+dominican+friary/ Site Record for Dumfries 'Dominican Friary' Details]
{{coord|55.0675803

|Dumfries Greyfriars

|

|Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual
founded before 1266 by Devorgilla de Balliol (20 April 1234(?)Dumfries Greyfriars — probably spurious charter of foundation 20 April 1234 by Alan of Galloway cited by Manuscript collections of Father Marianus Brockie (Scottish Catholic Archives, Edinburgh), p.1268 by Alan of Galloway, or c. 1262Dumfries Greyfriars — foundation date c. 1262 cited by W. Moir Bryce, The Scottish Grey Friars (Edinburgh, 1909), i, p.199/before 1305Dumfries Greyfriars — foundation date before 1305 cited Early Sources of Scottish History 500 to 1268, ed. A. O. Anderson (Edinburgh, 1922) ii, p.479ⁿ)
dissolved or secularised 1569, Burgh of Dumfries granted revenues and land 23 April 1569;
Town Council gained possession by 1570Dumfries Greyfriars — possession by Town Council cited by W. Moir Bryce, The Scottish Grey Friars (Edinburgh, 1909), i, p.214

|St Mary

|

|Dundrennan Abbey

|150px

|Cistercian monks — from Rievaulx
daughter house of Rievaulx;
founded 1142 by David I, or possibly Fergus of Galloway;
dissolved 1560; granted to Edward Maxwell 14 August 1562;
secularised 1606; (HS)

|The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Dundrennan

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/64408/details/dundrennan+abbey/ Site Record for Dundrennan Abbey St Mary's Abbey Details]
{{coord|54.806667

|Glenluce Abbey

|150px

|Cistercian monks — from Melrose
daughter house of Dundrennan;
founded 1191/2, purportedly by Roland of Galloway, Constable of Scotland;
dissolved or secularised 1560; granted to the Bishop of Galloway 1619; (HS)

|The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Glenluce
____________________
Luce Abbey

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/61214/details/glenluce+abbey/ Site Record for Glenluce Abbey Luce Abbey Details]
{{coord|54|53|21|N|4|49|53|W|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Glenluce Abbey}}

|Hoddam Monastery

|

|Celtic monks
founded before 612 by Kentigern? (traditionally association), who reputedly built church and located the see of his bishopric here

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/66705/details/hoddom+old+parish+church/ Site Record for Hoddom, Old Parish Church Hoddom Monastery; Hallguards Quarry; Hoddam; Hoddambridge Details]
{{coord|55.0413151

|Kar Monastery

|colspan=4|given as located in Galloway, probably South Ayrshire (v. supra)

|Kilconquhar Monastery

|colspan=4|purportedly Benedictine monks
founded by Fergus (or Ethred), Lord of Galloway — no such location or monastery

|Kirkcudbright Blackfriars

|

|Dominican Friars
probably erroneous reference to the house of Greyfriars (see immediately below)Kirkcudbright Blackfriars — Rotuli scaccarii regum scotorum (The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland), ed. J. Stewart and others (Edinburgh, 1878-1908) xiii, p.472: reference 1512 to Friars Preachers of Kirkcudbright

|

|

|Kirkcudbright Greyfriars ⁺

|

|Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual
founded c. 1450 (between 1449 and 1456) by James II; (or 1239, purportedly by Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, Lord of Galloway and Constable of ScotlandKirkcudbright Greyfriars — spurious charter 16 September 1239: Tweedie Manuscript, cited by Manuscript collections of Father Marianus Brockie (Scottish Catholic Archives, Edinburgh), pp.1431-2);
dissolved or secularised 1569; destroyed and ruinous before 6 December 1569 when granted to Thomas MacLellan of Bombie by James IV; granted to the Town Council 24 March 1570/1 by Thomas MacLellan, conventual church in parochial use from 24 March 1570/1

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/64082/details/kirkcudbright+greyfriars+monastery/ Site Record for Kirkcudbright, Greyfriars Monastery Greyfriars Convent; 'Castle Aisle' Details]
{{coord|54.835636

|Kirkcudbright Monastery

|

|scholars of a religious community apparently serving a foundation here;
still in possession of the church 1164

|

|

|Lincluden Priory

|150px

|Benedictine nuns
founded 1164 (before 1174) by Uchtred mac Fergus, Lord of Galloway or Malcolm IV;
also given as Cluniac nuns;
dissolved 1389;
secular canons college late-14thC; (HS)

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/65571/details/lincluden+college/ Site Record for Lincluden College Lincluden Abbey; Lincluden, Convent Details]
{{coord|55.0845822

|Lochkindeloch Priory

|

|Cistercian monks — supposed foundation; parish church, but no religious house in the parish other than Sweetheart Abbey

|

|

|St Evoca Priory

|

|Cistercian nuns
founded before 1423;
dissolution unknown

|St Evoca the Virgin

|

|St Mary's Priory, St Mary's Isle (Isle of Trahil)

|

|Augustinian Canons Regular — from Holyrood
founded c. 1138 (before 1173);
dissolved or secularised 1608

|Prioratus Sanctae Mariae de Trayl
____________________
St Mary's Isle Priory;
Trail Priory;
Traill Priory

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/63909/details/st+mary+s+priory/ Site Record for St Mary's Priory St Mary's Isle Details]
{{coord|54.8175028

|Soulseat Abbey

|

|Premonstratensian Canons — from Prémontre
founded 1161(?) (1152);
dissolved or secularised 1630

|The Abbey Church of Saint Mary and Saint John, Soulseat
________________
Saulseat Abbey

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/61217/details/soulseat+abbey/ Site Record for Soulseat Abbey Soulseat Abbey And Burial-Ground; Mahaar Details]
{{coord|54.8871452

|Soulseat Priory

|

|Cistercian monks
uncertain foundation; unverified location and identification

|Viride Stagnum

|

|Sweetheart Abbey

|150px

|Cistercian monks — from Dundrennan
founded 1275 by Devorgilla, widow of John Balliol, endowment by Devorgilla 10 April 1273;
dissolved May 1565; granted to William Lesley 1586;
secularised 1624, erected to a temporal lordship for Sir Robert Spottiswoode; (HS)

|The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Sweetheart
____________________
New Abbey

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/65464/details/new+abbey+sweetheart+abbey/ Site Record for New Abbey, Sweetheart Abbey Details]
{{coord|54|58|44|N|3|36|59|W|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Sweetheart Abbey}}

|Tongland Abbey

|150px

|Premonstratensian Canons — from Cockersand, Lancashire
daughter house of Cockersand;
founded 1218;
dissolved or secularised 1612

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/64048/details/tongland+abbey/ Site Record for Tongland Abbey Old Tongland Parish Church Details]
{{coord|54.8630151

|Whithorn Priory

|150px

|possible [non-monastic] Christian community late 4thC;
possibly monastic by 8thC;
Premonstratensian Canons
daughter house of Soulseat
founded c. 1175 or before 1161 by Fergus, Prince of Galloway;
dissolved or secularised 1612;
cathedral church of Galloway; (HS)
Whithorn

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/71822/details/whithorn+priory/ Site Record for Whithorn Priory Details]
{{coord|54.7334919

|Wigtown Blackfriars

|

|Dominican Blackfriars
founded 1267 or before 1287 by Devorgilla, daughter of Alan of Galloway;
secularised 1560-70(?), probably granted to the Burgh of Wigtown (though no record found)

|The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

| {{coord|54.867

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!width = 20%|Formal name or dedication
& alternative names

!width = 10%|Online references & location

|Samye Ling Monastery *, Langholm

|

|Karma Kagyu school Tibetan Buddhist 1967

|Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre

|

!width = 15%|Foundation

!width = 5%|Image

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!width = 20%|Formal name or dedication
& alternative names

!width = 10%|Online references & location

|Ross Priory, Loch Lomond

|

|doubtful establishment, probable early-19thC invention;
country house

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/127767/details/ross+priory/ Site Record for Ross Priory Details] {{coord|56.0546176

!width = 15%|Foundation

!width = 5%|Image

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!width = 20%|Formal name or dedication
& alternative names

!width = 10%|Online references & location

|Edinburgh Blackfriars

|

|Dominican Friars
founded 1230 by Alexander II, site of the king's manor house granted to the friars by him;
dissolved or secularised 1566/7, granted to the magistrates and Edinburgh Town Council 13 March 1566/7. The area was eventually turned into the Old High School in 1578, rebuilt in 1777, the area is now part of the University of Edinburgh. Archaeologists discovered the remains of friary during the renovation of the buildings.

|The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/52514/details/edinburgh+blackfriars+dominican+monastery/ Site Record for Edinburgh, Blackfriars' Dominican Monastery Details]{{Cite web|title=Vol 90 (2020): Finding the Blackfriars: Excavations at Old High School, Infirmary Street, Edinburgh {{!}} Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports|url=http://journals.socantscot.org/index.php/sair/issue/view/302|access-date=2021-09-10|website=journals.socantscot.org}}
{{coord|55.9486231

|Edinburgh Greenside Whitefriars

|

|Carmelite Friars
founded 1520-5, site granted by the town, with the permission of the king and the bishop of St Andrews;
dissolved or secularised before 1563

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/52403/details/edinburgh+greenside+row+carmelite+friary/ Site Record for Edinburgh, Greenside Row, Carmelite Friary Rude Chapel; Greenside Hospital Details]
{{coord|55.9572621

|Edinburgh Greyfriars

|150px

|Observant Franciscan Friars
founded c. 1463;
destroyed by Reformers 14 June 1559;
dissolved or secularised 1562;
Greyfriars Tolbooth & Highland Kirk built on site 1602-20

|

| {{coord|55.9466

|Edinburgh Preceptory

|

|property - asserted preceptoryEdinburgh Preceptory: Reports of the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland — Edinburgh (1951), p.126, no.75: exaggerated description of property

|

|

|Edinburgh Sciennes Priory

|

|Dominican nuns
founded 1517, erroneously asserted to have been founded by Lady Roslin, Countess of Caithness;
secularised 1569

|St Katherine of Senis

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/52560/details/edinburgh+sciennes+dominican+convent/ Site Record for Edinburgh, Sciennes, Dominican Convent Sciennes, Dominican Nunnery Details]
{{coord|55.9373286

|Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh

|150px

|Augustinian Canons Regular — from St Andrews
daughter house of Merton, Surrey;
founded 1128 by David I;
sacked by the English 1322;
burned by the English 1385;
dissolved or secularised 1606;
erected into temporal lordship for John Bothwell, son of the bishop 1606 (in parliament), charter 1607;
nave in use as the parish church of the Canongate until 1686;
partly absorbed into 17thC Holyrood Palace; served as Chapel Royal until mid-18thC; (HS)

|The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Saint Andrew and All Saints, Holyrood

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/52381/details/edinburgh+holyrood+palace+holyrood+abbey/ Site Record for Edinburgh, Holyrood Palace, Holyrood Abbey Holyrood Abbey Church; Palace Of Holyrood; Palace Of Holyroodhouse Details]
{{coord|55.9532246

|South Queensferry Whitefriars

|150px

|Carmelite Friars
founded 1 March 1440/1 (purportedly founded 1330 by the laird of Dundass,Queensferry Whitefriars — foundation 1330/1: J. Spottiswoode, An account of all the Religious Houses that were in Scotland at the time of the Reformation (included in R. Keith, An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops (Edinburgh, 1824)), p.455 or 28 November 1333Queensferry Whitefriars — foundation intimated: purported letter of James Dundas, Laird of Dundas, to the Provincial and Vicar-General of the Camelite order in Scotland — Manuscript collections of Father Marianus Brockie (Scottish Catholic Archives, Edinburgh), p.1554);
dissolved before 1564/5;
prior granted lease 27 February 1564/5;
let by Sir Walter Dundas to the Balies and Town Council of Queensferry as a place of worship and school;
present parochial church built on site 1635Queensferry Whitefriars — present parish church: Dundas Charters, National Library of Scotland, Mac. xxiv, p.29)

|Queensferry Friary

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/50481/details/south+queensferry+8+hopetoun+road+episcopal+church/ Site Record for South Queensferry, 8 Hopetoun Road, Episcopal Church Carmelite Friars Church; Priory Church Of St Mary Of Mount Carmel Details]
{{coord|55.9908866

|Sciennes Priory

|

|Franciscan nuns
spurious charters including grant by Margaret Knox, daughter of Uchtred Knox of Ranfurly to build a hospital

|

|

!width = 15%|Foundation

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& alternative names

!width = 10%|Online references & location

|Barra Red Friars

|

|Trinitarians
purported cell – possible church of Celtic origin, supposed house – lacking evidence

|The Holy Trinity

|

|Carnish 'Cell'

|

|Augustinian Canons Regular
asserted cell of Inchaffray, purportedly founded by the Macleods of the Lewis; evidence of monastic house lacking

|Scarinche

|

|Nuntown Priory

|

|nuns of unspecified order — probably spurious account of building on Benbecula 'locally believed to have been a nunnery'Nuntown Priory — New Statistical Account

|

|

|Rowadil Priory

|

|Augustinian Canons Regular;
asserted priory;
purportedly founded by MacLeod of Harris;
evidently no more than parochial church or chapel

|Rodwil;
Rowadill;
Rodel

|{{Cite web |url=http://www.scotsites.co.uk/ebooks/cathedralsabbeys6.htm |title=ScotSites eBooks - Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys |access-date=23 February 2013 |archive-date=21 April 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130421051513/http://www.scotsites.co.uk/ebooks/cathedralsabbeys6.htm |url-status=dead }}

!width = 15%|Foundation

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& alternative names

!width = 10%|Online references & location

|Balmerino Abbey

|150px

|Cistercian monks — from Melrose
dependent on Melrose;
founded c. 1227/9;
dissolved 1560; secularised 1603; (NTS)

|The Abbey Church of Saint Mary and Saint Edward

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/31746/details/balmerino+abbey/ Site Record for Balmerino Abbey Details]
{{coord|56.4099722

|Carnbee Preceptory

|

|Knights Templar
foundation unknown;
suppressed c. 1309

|

|

|Crail Blackfriars

|

|purported Dominican Friars
site granted for a church and monastery, (spurious charter purportedly of Elizabeth Hepburn, Abbess of Haddington 28 September 1448Crail Blackfriars — spurious and unreliable charters cited by Manuscript collections of Father Marianus Brockie (Scottish Catholic Archives, Edinburgh), pp.1254, 1255-7); reliable evidence of foundation lacking

|

|

|Crail Priory

|

|nuns of unspecified order – apocryphal establishment

|

|

|Culross Abbey ⁺

|150px

|Cistercian monks — from Kinloss
dependent on Kinloss;
founded before 1217/8;
dissolved 1560;
erected into a temporal lordship for James Colville of Easter Wemyss (charters 1589, 1609);
currently partly in use as a parish church; (HS)

|The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Saint Andrew and Saint Serf, Culross

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/48040/details/culross+culross+abbey/ Site Record for Culross, Culross Abbey Details]
{{coord|56.0583587

|Cupar Blackfriars

|

|Dominican Friars
founded 1348: petition by Duncan, Earl of Fife to the Pope 1348, to found a Dominican convent at his castle; permission granted by the Pope for the vicar-general in Scotland of the English provincial to build a church and oratory;
reportedly in a state of collapse by 13 November 1517;
proposal to close the house approved 1518, confirmed by Crown charter 4 October 1519; incorporated with the house at St Andrews, where the friars transferred 1519; granted to the Burgh of Cupar by James VI 14 June 1572

|St Katherine

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/31494/details/cupar/ Site Record for Cupar Details]
{{coord|56.3197129

|Cupar Red Friars

|colspan=4|purported Trinitarians
allegedly founded 1277 by James, Earl of Fife — no such person – fictitious house

|Dunfermline Abbey

|150px

|Benedictine monks
priory founded c. 1070;
raised to abbey status 1124/1128;
dissolved 1593, annexed to the Crown

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/49315/details/dunfermline+abbey+new+abbey+nave+and+parish+church/ Site Record for Dunfermline Abbey, New Abbey Nave And Parish Church Abbot Street; Maygate; Monastery]
{{coord|56.0697958

|Dysart Blackfriars

|

|supposed Dominican FriarsDysart Blackfriars — included in Dumfries listDysart Blackfriars — Manuscript collections of Father Marianus Brockie (Scottish Catholic Archives, Edinburgh), p.1229 - land granted: spurious charter of William Sinclair of Dysart 27 March 1466/7/8 (year partly obscured)
reliable evidence of foundation lacking;
long-ruined chapel converted for use as a forge

|St Dennis (chapel);
St Cuthbert (church)

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/54000/details/dysart+saint+dennis+chapel/ Site Record for Dysart, 'saint Dennis' Chapel' Details]
{{coord|56.124671

|Gadvan Preceptory

|

|Cistercian monks
cell dependent on Balmerino;
founded before 1475;
dissolved or secularised before 1578

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/30018/details/dunbog+house/&biblio=more Site Record for Dunbog House Preceptory Of Gadvan Details]
{{coord|56.3492788

|Inchcolm Abbey

|150px

|Augustinian Canons Regular
founded 1123

| The Abbey Church of Saint Columba, Inchcolm
____________________
St Colm's Abbey, Inch

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/50895/details/inchcolm+abbey/ Site Record for Inchcolm Abbey Details]
{{coord|56.0299716

|Inchcolm Hermitage

|

|purported hermit residence on the island prior to the foundation of the Augustinian house (see immediately above)

|

|

|Inverbervie Whitefriars

|

|Carmelite Friars
founded before 1443, endowments by William, Earl of Keith and Alexander Strachan of Dullevarde 10 December 1443 (two spurious charters of foundation: 1358 by David II; 12 November 1388 by Mark Rait of Halgreen);
dissolved or secularised before 1570; grant of friars' land and property made 15 October 1570; granted to hospital in Montrose 23 July 1571

|Bervie Whitefriars

|

|Inverkeithing Blackfriars

|

|supposed Dominican Friars
some references probably pertain to the Franciscan friaryInverkeithing Blackfriars — included in Dumfries list and W. Maitland, The History and Antiquities of Scotland (London, 1757), i 262Inverkeithing Blackfriars — site granted: Manuscript collections of Father Marianus Brockie (Scottish Catholic Archives, Edinburgh), p.1224 - charter (undated) "Hugh de Lundey", Lord of the Burgh of Inverkeithing with the consent of Robert de Bruis index Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, edited by T. Dickson and Sir J. Balfour Paul (Edinburgh 1877-1916), ii (though the text refers to 'Frieris of Inverkethin' (most likely the Franciscan Friars)

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/50997/details/inverkeithing/ Site Record for Inverkeithing Details]
{{coord|56.0228222

|Inverkeithing Greyfriars

|

|Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual
founded 1268(?) (before 1384), built by Philip de Moubray, Lord of Barnbougle;
dissolved or secularised 1559

|possibly The Friary Church of Saint Mary, Inverkeithing

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/50940/details/inverkeithing+queen+street+museum/ Site Record for Inverkeithing, Queen Street, Museum Franciscan Friary; The Palace Details]
{{coord|56.0297648

|Isle of May Monastery

|

|conjectural Culdees or monks establishmentIsle of May Monastery: Annals of the Reigns of Malcolm and William, Kings of Scotland, ed. A. C. Lawrie (Glasgow, 1910) states "It is possible that on the Isle of May, in the beginning of the twelfth century, there was a small fraternity of culdees or monks of the old Scottish church"

|

|

|Isle of May Priory

|150px

|Benedictine monks — from Reading, Berkshire
dependent on Reading;
Augustinian Canons Regular
dependent on St Andrews;
refounded late-13th/early-14thC;
transferred to Pittenweem late-13th/early-14thC

|The Priory Church of Saint Oran and Saint Colman, Isle of May
____________________
May Priory

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/57873/details/isle+of+may+st+adrian+s+chapel/ Site Record for Isle Of May, St Adrian's Chapel Isle Of May Monastery; St Adrian's Priory; May Island Details]{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/recordsprioryis01priogoog |title = Records of the Priory of the Isle of May| publisher=Society [of Antiquaries of Scotland] |last1 = Priory|first1 = Isle of May|year = 1868}}
{{coord|56.1856289

|Kilconquhar Nunnery

|colspan=4|Benedictine nuns
actually a parochial church owned by North Berwick Nunnery;
sometimes (erroneously) noted as located in Galloway

|Kilrimont Monastery

|150px

|Culdees
traditionally founded by Ungus mac Urguist;
collegiate
founded 1240s

|Cill-rigmonaid Monastery;
Cenn-rigmonaid Monastery;
Kilrymont monastery

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/34296/details/st+andrews+church+of+the+holy+trinity+of+kilrimund/ Site Record for St Andrews, Church Of The Holy Trinity Of Kilrimund Trinity Of Kilrimund; Kilrimont Details]
{{coord|56.3398

|Kinghorn Blackfriars

|

|purported Dominican BlackfriarsKinghorn Blackfriars — included in Dumfries listKinghorn Blackfriars — spurious and unreliable charters cited by Manuscript collections of Father Marianus Brockie (Scottish Catholic Archives, Edinburgh), pp.1228: vague account of foundation - probably spurious charter of benefaction of James de Kirkcaldy 28 September 1388
very dubious

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/52774/details/kinghorn+dominican+friary/ Site Record for Kinghorn, Dominican Friary Details]
{{coord|56.070135

|Lindores Abbey

|150px

|Tironensian monks — from Kelso
founded c. 1190 (between c. 1190 and 1191) by David, Earl of Huntingdon;
dissolved or secularised 1600

|The Abbey Church of Our Lady and Saint Andrew

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/30109/details/lindores+abbey/ Site Record for Lindores Abbey Details]
{{coord|56.35274|N|3.22816|W|format=dms|region:GB_type:landmark_source:enwiki|name=Lindores Abbey}}

|Maryculter Preceptory

|

|Knights Templar
founded between 1221 and 1236 by Walter Byset;
suppressed c. 1309
Knights Hospitaller
transferred c. 1309;
dissolved c. 1513

|Culter Preceptory

|

|Pittenweem Priory

|

|Augustinian Canons Regular
transferred from Isle of May c. 1200

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/34240/details/pittenweem+marygate+pittenweem+priory/ Site Record for Pittenweem, Marygate, Pittenweem Priory Town Hall; Great House; Prior's Lodging; St John's Rectory Details]
{{coord|56.2136016

|St Andrew's Blackfriars

|150px

|Dominican Friars
purportedly founded 1274 by William Wishart, Bishop of St Andrews;
destroyed by fire by Norman Lesley 1547;
destroyed by Reformers 14 June 1599
dissolved or secularised 1567, granted to the municipality of St Andrews by Queen Mary 17 April 1567

|The Assumption and Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
____________________
Blackfriars Chapel

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/94440/details/st+andrews+south+street+dominican+monastery/ Site Record for St Andrews, South Street, Dominican Monastery Blackfriars Chapel Details]
{{coord|56.3388972

|St Andrew's Cathedral Priory

|150px

|Celtic monks
founded before 747;
Culdees
founded 9th/10thC
cathedral
founded 908
Augustinian Canons Regular
cathedral priory founded 1144, and endowed by Robert, Bishop of St Andrews;
dissolved or secularised 1592, erected into a temporal lordship for the duke, in parliament 1592, 1606; (HS)

|The Cathedral and Priory Church of Saint Andrew, Saint Andrews
____________________
Cennrigmonaid

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/34299/details/st+andrews+cathedral/ Site Record for St Andrews Cathedral St Andrews Priory Details]
{{coord|56.340033

|St Andrew's Greyfriars

|

|Observant Franciscan Friars
founded between 1463 and 1466 by James Kennedy, Bishop of St Andrew's, purported (spurious) papal bull of Pius II of foundation 24 November 1458;
burned by Norman Lesilie July 1547;
dissolved or secularised 1559–1567; resigned to the magistrates 18 May 1559; destroyed by Reformers on or c. 14 June 1559; granted to the Burgh of St Andrew's by Queen Mary 17 April 1567

|

|

|St Andrew's Red Friars

|colspan=4|purported Trinitarians — fictitious house

|St Andrew's Whitefriars

|

|asserted Carmelite Friars
founded 1370 by 'Bishop William de Laverdale' {{sic}} (possibly William de Landallis); — uncertain foundation

|

|

|St Ninian's Blackfriars

|colspan=4|Dominican BlackfriarsSt Ninian's Blackfriars — Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocie (Abbotsford Club 1842) p.249
erroneous reference to St Monan's

|St Monan's Blackfriars ⁺

|150px

|church founded as a chapel 3 April 1370 by David II
Dominican Friars
refounded 15 November 1471 by James III;
conventual status by bull of Sixtus IV procured by the vicar-general and the king 18 March 1476/7;
incorporated into St Andrews Michaelmas 1519;
secularised c. 1567

|The Friary Church of Saint Monan, Saint Monan's
____________________
erroneously 'St Ninians' St Ninian's Blackfriars — Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocie (Abbotsford Club 1842) p.249

| {{coord|56.2032129

|St Rule's Priory

|150px

|Augustinian Canons Regular — from Scone
founded 1133–1144; (HS)

|The Priory Church of Saint Rule, Saint Andrews

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/34371/details/st+andrews+cathedral+st+rule+s+church+and+st+rule+s+tower/ Site Record for St Andrews Cathedral, St Rule's Church And St Rule's Tower St Regulus Church Details]
{{coord|56.3396524

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|Glasgow Austin Friars ?

|

|Augustinian Friars?
church founded by laymen, granted to three hermits of the order in the Glasgow diocese c. 1453 — unidentified foundation

|

|

|Glasgow Blackfriars ^#

|

|Dominican Friars
founded before 1246, purportedly by the bishop and chapter, papal bull of Innocent IV 10 July 1246 granted indulgence to those contributing to the building of the church;
secularised 1566/7;
granted by Mary, Queen of Scots to the University of Glasgow and served as a parish church 16 March 1566/7;
conventual church destroyed by fire c. 1670;
rebuilt 1699-1702;
demolished when the university re-located in the 1870s

|St John the Evangelist
____________________
Old College Church

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/168154/details/glasgow+blackfriars+chapel/ Site Record for Glasgow, Blackfriars Chapel Black Friars; Old College Church Details]
{{coord|55.8585809

|Glasgow Franciscan Friary

|

|Franciscan Friars

|Roman Catholic Church of Saint Luke;
Blessed John Duns Franciscan Friary

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/159794/details/glasgow+gorbals+270+ballater+street+st+luke+s+roman+catholic+church/ Site Record for Glasgow, Gorbals, 270 Ballater Street, St Luke's Roman Catholic Church Roman Catholic Church Of Saint Luke; Blessed John Duns Franciscan Friary; Commercial Road Details]
{{coord|55.8496621

|Glasgow Greyfriars ^#

|

|Observant Franciscan Friars
founded 1473-9 (1477, 1472), mistakenly attributed to the archbishop;
dissolved or secularised 1566/7

|Church of The Blessed Virgin Mary

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/44092/details/glasgow+franciscan+friary/ Site Record for Glasgow, Franciscan Friary City Science Centre; Greyfriars Friary Details]
{{coord|55.8604234

|Glasgow Dominican Priory

|colspan=2|Dominican nuns
proposed foundation: bequeathal by Roland Blacadyr — foundation never implemented

|St Catherine of Siena

|

|Govan Monastery

|

|traditionally founded late-6thC by Constantine — evidence lacking

|

|

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|Applecross Monastery

|

|Celtic monks
founded 673 by Mael-rubai, Abbot of Bangor

|St Maelrubha's Monastery

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/11734/details/applecross+st+maelrubha+s+monastery/ Site Record for Applecross, St Maelrubha's Monastery Applecross Old Churchyard; Claodh Maree Details]
{{coord|57.4450061

|Beauly Priory

|150px

|Valliscaulian monks — from Val des Choux
dependent on Val des Choux;
founded 1230;
dissolved 1510;
Cistercian monks
founded 1510 on the suppression of the Valliscaulian order;
purportedly erected to a temporal lordship for Lord Hay of Sala 1612, (apparently erroneously noted);
granted to the Bishop of Ross (charter 20 October 1634); (HS)

|The Priory Church of The Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint John the Baptist, Beauly

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/12700/details/beauly+priory/ Site Record for Beauly Priory Beauly, High Street, Priory Details]
{{coord|57.4846827

|Cromarty Red Friars

|

|purported Trinitarians
no evidence of Trinitarian foundation here

|Crenach ?

|

|Dornoch Cell ?

|

|Benedictine monks
founded before early-12thC;
possible community established from Dunfermline or earlier community already established here

|

|

|Dornoch Red Friars

|

|asserted Trinitarians
founded 1271 by Sir Patrick Murray or the Reguli of Sutherland supposed house – evidence lacking – probably fictitious

|

|

|Eigg Monastery

|

|founded before 617 by St Donnan

|Kildonnan Monastery

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/22158/details/eigg+kildonnan/ Site Record for Eigg, Kildonnan Kildonan Details]
{{coord|56.8876782

|Fearn Abbey

|150px

|Premonstratensian Canons
daughter house of Whithorn;
founded 1221-2 (or c. 1227 at Old Fearn);
dissolved 1609

|The Abbey Church of Saint Ninian, Fearn

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/15264/details/fearn+abbey/ Site Record for Fearn Abbey Fearn Abbey Church; Fearn Parish Church; Nova Ferna; New Fearn; Hill Of Fearn Details]
{{coord|57.7700948

|Fort Augustus Abbey

|150px

|built as a military fort, Benedictine abbey and school in 20thC, now in private ownership

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/12208/details/fort+augustus+abbey+church+monastery+and+school/ Site Record for Fort Augustus Abbey, Church, Monastery And School St Benedict's Abbey; Kilcumien; Fort Augustus Barracks Details]
{{coord|57.1446802

|Inverness Blackfriars

|rowspan=2|

|Dominican Friars
founded after 1214 and before 1240 by Alexander II;
secularised before 19 January 1566/7;
destroyed by Cromwell, masonry used in the construction of a citadel at the north of the town

|St Bartholomew

|rowspan=2|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/13333/details/inverness+friars+street+dominican+friary/ Site Record for Inverness, Friars' Street, Dominican Friary Details]
{{coord|57.4806259

|Inverness Greyfriars

|confusion with Inverness Blackfriars

|

|Kingussie Whitefriars ^#

|

|Carmelite Friars
founded before 1501 by George, Earl of Huntly;
dissolved or secularised after 1560

|St Columba's Friary

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/14076/details/kingussie+st+columba+s+friary/ Site Record for Kingussie, St Columba's Friary Kingussie Graveyard Details]
{{coord|57.0809868

|Murkle Priory

|

|nuns of uncertain order — supposed foundation – unverified

|Glosters Priory

|

|North Rona Monastery

|

|7thC

|

|

|Old Fearn Abbey

|

|Premonstratensian Canons
founded c. 1227

|

| {{coord|57.8619227

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|Blantyre Priory

|

|Augustinian Canons Regular
cell dependent on Jedburgh
founded between 1238 and 1249 by Patrick (II), Earl of Dunbar and his wife Euphemia;
dissolved or secularised 1598/9

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/44890/details/blantyre+priory/ Site Record for Blantyre Priory Blantyre Farm Road Details]
{{coord|55.8108077

|Culter Preceptory

|colspan=4|Knights Templar — no such house – confusion with Maryculter (v. supra)

|Lanark Greyfriars

|

|Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual
founded 11 November 1328 and 15 May 1329Lanark Greyfriars — foundation 1328-9: spurious charter of foundation cited by Manuscript collections of Father Marianus Brockie (Scottish Catholic Archives, Edinburgh), p.1459 (? between 27 March 1325 and 26 March 1326), site and endowments granted by Robert I who projected the foundation;
probably founded by David II who obtained papal bull of Clement VI 29 November 1346;Lanark Greyfriars — W. Moir Bryce, The Scottish Grey Friars (Edinburgh, 1909), ii, p.149; Reg, Aven, 88, folios 191-IV
leased to James Lockhart of Lee prior to dissolution (date unknown); dissolved or secularised before 1566 (date abandoned unknown, though masonry being removed before 1566)

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/46585/details/lanark+franciscan+friary/ Site Record for Lanark, Franciscan Friary Clydesdale Hotel Details]
{{coord|55.6735485

|Lesmahagow Priory

|150px

|Tironensian monks — from Kelso
dependent on Kelso;
founded 1144, church and lands granted to Kelso by David I and John, Bishop of Glasgow;
dissolved 1607

|The Priory Church of Saint Malo, Lesmahagow

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/46471/details/lesmahagow+church+square+lesmahagow+parish+church/ Site Record for Lesmahagow, Church Square, Lesmahagow Parish Church Langdykeside; Old Lesmahagow Church; Lesmahagow Priory Details]
{{coord|55.6379041

|Nunnery Priory

|colspan=4|nuns of unspecified order — no foundation existed here

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|Dirleton Red Friars

|

|Trinitarians
chapel of St Andrew's founded by the ancestors of Patrick, Lord Haliburton;
recorded as Trinitarian 1507; annexed to the Crown before 1 August 1588

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/56751/details/dirleton+friary/ Site Record for Dirleton, Friary Details]
{{coord|56.0372531

|Dunbar Priory

|

|Trinitarians
founded 1240-8 (1218);
granted to secular chaplain 8 March 1528/9; revoked 1 July 1529; dissolved 1529

|The Priory Church of the Holy Trinity, Dunbar

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/57675/details/dunbar+friarscroft/ Site Record for Dunbar, Friarscroft Friar's Croft; Red Friars Dovecot Details]
{{coord|56.0014092

|Dunbar Whitefriars?

|

|Carmelite Friars
purportedly founded 1263 by Patrick, Earl of March supposed foundation – foundation references spurious, later references possible confusion with Trinitarian house

|

|

|Elbottle Priory

|

|Cistercian nuns
cell of South Berwick; supposed foundation – evidence lacking

|

|

|Fidra Priory

|

|Premonstratensian Canons
supposed house
island granted to Dryburgh by William de Vaux;
canons of Dryburgh serving at the church of St Nicholas c. 1220
described as a chantry c. 1240

|Elbottle Priory

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/56654/details/fidra+st+nicholas+church/ Site Record for Fidra, St Nicholas' Church Eldbottle Details]
{{coord|56.0732032

|Gullane Priory

|

|Cistercian nuns
cell of South Berwick;
allegedly founded by David I; supposed foundation – evidence lacking

|Golyn Priory

|

|Haddington Austin Friars

|colspan=4|Augustinian Friars
erroneous reference to Augustinian Canons of St Andrews

|Haddington Austin Friars

|

|Augustinian Friars
hospital suppressed in favour of Austin Friars, and house built, though occupation never occurred and the house was conferred to Walter Ramsay, Chaplain to James V — incomplete foundation

|

|

|Haddington Blackfriars

|

|Dominican Friars
founded 1471;
dissolved or secularised 1489 to after 1490;
unsubstantiated claims of destroyed by the English and reduced to ashes 'by the rage of fanatics' c. 1558Haddington Blackfriars — destruction: Manuscript collections of Father Marianus Brockie (Scottish Catholic Archives, Edinburgh), p.1236

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/56496/details/haddington+dominican+friary/ Site Record for Haddington, Dominican Friary Details]
{{coord|55.9474937

|Haddington Greyfriars

|

|Franciscan Friars
founded 1242;
destroyed 1356

|Lucerna Laudoniae or Lamp of Lothian

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/56497/details/haddington+franciscan+friary/ Site Record for Haddington, Franciscan Friary The Lamp Of Lothian Details]
{{coord|55.9550746

|Haddington Priory

|

|Cistercian nuns
founded before 1159 by Ada, Countess of Northumberland and Huntingdon;
dissolved or secularised 1621; erected into a temporal lordship for John Maitland, master of Lauderdale 1621

|

|

|Houston Red Friars

|

|Trinitarians
founded c. 1270 by Cristiana, widow of Sir Roger Mubray, (or purportedly c. 1226 by Hugh, Lord of HoustonHouston Red Friars — foundation date c. 1220 given by Father R. A. Hay, Diplomatum Veterum Collectio. (MS. 34-1.10 in the National Library of Scotland), iii, p.576; J. Spottiswoode, An account of all the Religious Houses that were in Scotland at the time of the Reformation p.396 (included in R. Keith, An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops, Edinburgh, 1824)), who located the foundation in Renfrewshire), confirmed 26 January 1271/2 by Alexander III; possibly adjunct to, or identical with Houston hospital;
commonly (erroneously) located in Renfrewshire;
dissolved 1531; annexed to Peebles, confirmed by charter 8 January 1541/2

|The Grace of God

|

|Luffness Red Friars

|colspan=4|purported Trinitarians
purportedly founded 1285 by an earl of Dunbar;
confusion with Carmelite house at Fail

|Luffness Whitefriars

|

|Carmelite Friars
founded before 1293;
dissolved after 1560;
leased by the Crown 4 January 1609

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/55042/details/luffness+carmelite+friary/ Site Record for Luffness, Carmelite Friary Friary And Fish Ponds; Luffness Convent; Luffness Friary Details][http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=55042 ScotlandsPlaces - Luffness, Carmelite Friary] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053959/http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=55042 |date=4 March 2016 }}
{{coord|56.0111733

|Nunraw Abbey *

|150px

|Cistercian monks — from Roscrea, Ireland;
cell of Haddington;
founded 1946

|Sancta Maria Abbey, Nunraw

|[http://www.nunraw.org.uk/ Sancta Maria Abbey, Nunraw] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061114222643/http://www.nunraw.org.uk/ |date=14 November 2006 }}
{{coord|55.9218085

|Nunraw Priory

|colspan=4|supposed Cistercian nuns — no evidence of nunnery here

|North Berwick Priory

|150px

|Cistercian nuns
founded c. 1150 by Duncan (I), Earl of Fife who granted land (also attributed to Malcolm, Earl of Fife);
granted to Mariot Cockburn 30 June 1566;
granted to Margaret Hume 7 August 1568;
ruinous by 1587;
dissolved or secularised 1587/8; resigned by Margaret Hume to Alexander Hume 20 March 1587/8: church and cloister site granted by James VI

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/56760/details/north+berwick+priory/ Site Record for North Berwick Priory Cistercian Convent Details]
{{coord|56.055666

|Papple Priory

|colspan=4|nuns of unspecified order
land held by Cistercians of St Bothan's and Haddington — no evidence of monastic foundation

|St Germains Preceptory

|colspan=4|Knights Templar
given as Templars' house,St Germains Preceptory — J. Spottiswoode, An account of all the Religious Houses that were in Scotland at the time of the Reformation (included in R. Keith, An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops (Edinburgh, 1824)), p.435 actually a Bethlehemite Hospital

|Trefontain Priory

|

|Cistercian nuns
cell of South Berwick;
founded by David I;
lands granted to the collegiate church of Douglass; supposed foundation

|Trefountain Priory;
Trefontaynes Priory

|

|Tyninghame Monastery

|

|traditionally founded before 756 by Baldred;
destroyed by the Norse 941

|

|

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|Abercorn Monastery

|150px

|Celtic monks
probably founded between 635 and 663;
dissolved after early-8thC, (purportedly still extant 854)

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/49123/details/abercorn+church+and+anglian+monastery/ Site Record for Abercorn Church And Anglian Monastery Aebbercurnig; Abercorn Monastery; Abercorn Kirk; Abercorn Parish Church Details]
{{coord|55.996086

|Kirkliston Preceptory

|

|Knights Hospitaller
founded 1560;
annexed to Torphichen soon before 31 March 1513

|

|

|Linlithgow Austin Friars

|

|Augustinian Friars
royal benefactions between September and December 1503, no evidence of habitation – incomplete foundation; subsequent attempt to found settlement at Manuel (v. infra)

|

|

|Linlithgow Blackfriars

|

|Dominican Blackfriarsincluded in Dumfries list
foundation and founder unknownLinlithgow Blackfriars — Manuscript collections of Father Marianus Brockie (Scottish Catholic Archives, Edinburgh), p.1219 – probably spurious charter of John, King of Scots 19 March 1294/5

|

|

|Linlithgow Whitefriars

|

|Carmelite Friars
founded c. 1401;
dissolved before 1567/8

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/49244/details/linlithgow+carmelite+friary/ Site Record for Linlithgow, Carmelite Friary Nether Parkley Details]
{{coord|55.9715888

|Manuel Austin Friars

|

|Augustinian Friars
provision for suppression of Cistercian nunnery (see immediately below) by the Pope 16 June 1506, on petition by James IV, never implemented — incomplete foundation

|

|

|Manuel Priory

|

|Cistercian nuns
founded 1156 (before 1164) by Malcolm IV, confirmed by William the Lion between 1166 and 1171;
dissolved or secularised after 1599;
probably passed into the possession of Alexander, Lord Livingstone, for whom the lease was renewed by James VI 13 April 1599

|Emanuel Nunnery;
Manuel Nunnery

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/47796/details/manuel+nunnery/ Site Record for Manuel Nunnery Manuelburn Bridge Details]
{{coord|55.9695475

|Torphichen Preceptory ⁺

|150px

|Knights Hospitaller
founded between c. 1144 and 1153 by David I who granted land;
secularised 1563/4; land and baronies granted to praeceptor James, Lord St John by Queen Mary 25 January 1563/4

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/47978/details/torphichen+bowyett+torphichen+preceptory+and+torphichen+parish+church/ Preceptory And Torphichen Parish Church Hospital Of Torphichen; Preceptory Of St John Details]
{{coord|55.9346427

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|Balantrodoch Preceptory

|

|Knights Templar
founded 1128-53;
suppressed c. 1309

|Temple

|

|Newbattle Abbey

|150px

|Cistercian monks — from Melrose
daughter house of Melrose;
founded 1140, regarded as by David I, endowments by David and his son, Earl Henry;
dissolved 1560; granted to Mark Ker, son of the Commendator, also Mark Ker) 7 April 1567, confirmed 24 August 1584, after the death of his father; erected into a temporal lordship for Mark Ker (charter 1587)

|The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Newbattle

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/53442/details/newbattle+abbey+monkland+wall+king+david+s+gate/ Site Record for Newbattle Abbey, Monkland Wall, King David's Gate Newbattle Abbey Policies; Newbattle Abbey, The King's Gate Details]
{{coord|55.8803663

|Soutra Red Friars

|

|asserted Trinitarians — unfounded assertion

|

|

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|Elgin Blackfriars

|

|Dominican Friars
founded 1233 or 1234 by King Alexander II;
lands and revenues apparently permanently under Dunbar family at the Reformation; secularised 1570/1; Alexander Dunbar, dean of Moray received crown confirmation 7 January 1570/1, property granted under Great Seal 4 March 1573/4 and 9 January 1575/6

|St James

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/16673/details/elgin+dominican+friary/ Site Record for Elgin, Dominican Friary Blackfriars' Monastery Details]
{{coord|57.6494827

|Elgin Greyfriars

|

|Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual
land granted by William, Earl of Ross c. 1281; foundation incomplete

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/16697/details/elgin+franciscan+friary/ Site Record for Elgin, Franciscan Friary Dumfermline Cottage; Greyfriars Monastery Details]
{{coord|57.6486273

|Elgin Greyfriars, Observants

|

|Observant Franciscan Friars
founded before 1494, allegedly by John Innes of Innes;
dissolved or secularised c. 1559;
lands leased to Robert Innes of Invermarky by James VI 20 April 1573;
restored; now in use by adjacent convent

|Observantine House of The Franciscan Friars

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/16604/details/elgin+abbey+street+convent+of+mercy+greyfriars+church/ Site Record for Elgin, Abbey Street, Convent Of Mercy, Greyfriars' Church Chapel; Franciscan Friary; Greyfriars' Street; Observantine House Of The Franciscan Friars Details]
{{coord|57.6479499

|Elgin Whitefriars ?

|

|Carmelite Friars
probable confusion with Greyfriars

|

|

|Forres Blackfriars

|

|supposed Dominican FriarsForres Blackfriars — included in Dumfries list — evidence lacking

|

|

|Kinloss Abbey

|150px

|Cistercian monks — from Melrose
daughter house of Melrose;
founded 21 May 1150 by David I;
dissolved 1560;
secularised 1601, erected into a temporal lordship for Edward Bruce, becoming Lord Kinloss, (charters 1601, 1608)

|The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Kinloss

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/15888/details/kinloss+abbey+and+burial+ground/ Site Record for Kinloss Abbey And Burial Ground Details]
{{coord|57.6339271

|Pluscarden Abbey *

|150px

|Valliscaulian monks — from Val des Choux
priory 1230;
Benedictine monks
dependent on Dunfermline;
dissolved 1587, united with Urquhart;
Benedictine monks priory, now Benedictine abbey

|The Abbey Church of Saint Andrew, Pluscarden

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/16094/details/pluscarden+abbey/ Site Record for Pluscarden Abbey Pluscarden Priory; Vallisculian Priory Details]
{{coord|57.6005539

|Urquhart Priory ^#

|

|Benedictine monks — from Dunfermline
dependent on Dunfermline;
founded 1124, reputedly by David I who made a grant made between 1130 and 1150;
Pluscarden united with Urquhart;
took formal possession of Pluscarden 8 November 1454;
community settled at Pluscarden due to the extent of the buildings there;
no remains on site, stone cross from priory incorporated into the wall of current parish church hall

|The Priory Church of the Holy Trinity, Urquhart

|[http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/urquhart/urquhart/index.html Urquhart Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland]
{{coord|57.6481164

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|Brough of Birsay Monastery

|150px

|possible Celtic monks monastic settlement 6thC suggested to have connection with the name of St Colum or St Columba;
Viking farmstead 9thC;
cathedral early-12thC, foundation unknown;
see translated to Kirkwall 12thC;
church probably in parochial use until 13thC;
episcopal residence in use to 14thC

|St Peter's Monastery

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/1796/details/brough+of+birsay/ Site Record for Brough Of Birsay St Peter's Chapel; St Peter's Monastery Details]
{{coord|59.136571

|Brough of Birsay Red Friars

|

|alleged Trinitarians'Brough of Birsay Red Friars': Reports of the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland, Orkney and Shetlands (Edinburgh, 1909-), ii, I, p.3 — order unconfirmed

|

|

|Eynhallow Monastery ^#

|150px

|possible site of monastic settlement 12thC;
evidently ceased well before 16thC

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/2170/details/eynhallow+monastery/ Site Record for Eynhallow Monastery Details]
{{coord|59.1412545

|Golgotha Monastery *, Papa Stronsay

|

|Transalpine Redemptorists
transferred from Joinville, France; island purchased 31 May 1999; extant

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/242486/details/papa+stronsay/ Site Record for Papa Stronsay Golgotha Monastery Details][http://www.papastronsay.com/index.html Papa Stronsay, home of the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer — papastronsay.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120511045033/http://www.papastronsay.com/index.html |date=11 May 2012 }}
{{coord|59.1488162

|Hichaten Priory

|

|Cistercian monks
supposed foundation — no such location identified in the Orkneys

|Hichaten vel Orcades

|

|Transalpine Redemptorists

|

|possible Papari or Pictish monks
founded 8thC?

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/3291/details/papa+stronsay+st+nicholas+chapel/ Site Record for Papa Stronsay, St Nicholas' Chapel Details]
{{coord|59.1480757

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|Abernethy Priory

|150px

|Culdees
founded c. 6thC by Nechtan, King of the Picts;
possible cathedral;
Augustinian Canons Regular
founded 1272 or 1273;
dissolved or secularised early 14thC, erroneously attributed to George, Earl of Angus c.1450;
secular canons collegiate
founded

|The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Saint Bridget and Saint Abrinca St Bride

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/28005/details/abernethy+school+wynd+kirk+of+st+bride/ Site Record for Abernethy, School Wynd, Kirk Of St Bride Abernethy Parish Church; St Bride's Church Details][http://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cmas/site.php?id=125608 Corpus of Scottish medieval parish churches: Dunblane and Dunkeld dioceses] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120630205619/http://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cmas/site.php?id=125608 |date=30 June 2012 }}
{{coord|56.3333603

|Aberuthven 'Cell'

|colspan=3|church granted to the 'brethren' at Inchafray c. 1198;
asserted cell of Inchafray
granted to the Augustinian Canons Regular at Inchafray c. 1200; remained a parochial church rather than a cell

|{{coord|56.3171734

|Coupar Angus Abbey

|150px

|Cistercian monks — from Melrose
founded 1161/64, planned by Malcolm IV on the advice of Waltheof of Melrose; abbot appointed 12 July 1164;
dissolved 1560; granted to Andrew Lamb 24 March 1603;
granted to Patrick Sterling 20 May 1607;
secularised 1606; erected into a temporal lordship for James Elphinstone, thereafter Lord Coupar;
Lamb resigned the claim 24 January 1607

|The Abbey Church of The Blessed Virgin Mary, Coupar Angus

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/30556/details/coupar+angus+queen+street+abbey+church/ Site Record for Coupar Angus, Queen Street, Abbey Church Coupar Angus Church; Parish Church Of Coupar Angus; Coupar Angus Abbey Details][http://cistercians.shef.ac.uk/abbeys/coupar_angus.php The Cistercians in Yorkshire: Coupar Angus Abbey]
{{coord|56.5440363

|Coupar Angus Blackfriars

|

|Dominican FriarsCoupar Angus Blackfriars — listed by J. Spottiswoode, History of the Church of Scotland (1677), p.16 (25)
founded c. 1480, probably by Thomas, commendator-abbot of Coupar and dean of DunkeldCoupar Angus Blackfriars — foundation: foundation date and founder unknown: Manuscript collections of Father Marianus Brockie, Scottish Catholic Archives, Edinburgh, suggested founder (p.1241), suggested date (p.1248)

|

|

|Dalvey Cell

|

|Valliscaulian monks
supposed cell dependent on Pluscarden;
evidence lacking — considered conjectural

|

|

|Dron Priory

|

|Cistercian monks
supposed foundation purportedly dependent on Coupar Angus — dubious

|

|{{coord|56.4572

|Dull Priory

|

|suggested house of Tironensian monks, references apparently erroneous

|

|

|Dunkeld Monastery

|150px

|built before 849 by Kenneth mac Alpin

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/27156/details/dunkeld+cathedral+street+dunkeld+cathedral/ Site Record for Dunkeld, Cathedral Street, Dunkeld Cathedral Dunkeld Parish Church Details]
{{coord|56|33|54|N|3|35|23|W|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Dunkeld Monastery – now cathedral}}

|Elcho Priory

|

|Cistercian nuns
founded before 1241, attributed to David Lindsay I;
dissolved or secularised 1610; erected into a temporal lordship for Lord Scone (later Viscount Stormont)

|Elcho Nunnery;
Orchardnook

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/28389/details/grange+of+elcho/ Site Record for Grange Of Elcho Elcho Nunnery; Orchardnook Details]
{{coord|56.380297|N|3.391964|W|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GB|name=Elcho Priory}}

|Forfar Abbey

|colspan=4|Cistercian monks — erroneous reference to Coupar Angus

|Forfar Greyfriars

|

|supposed Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual
erroneous referenceForfar Greyfriars — Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, ed. J. Bain, (Edinburgh, 1881-8), (ii, no. 856) includes reference to such a house; Documents Illustrative of the History of Scotland 1286-1306, ed. J. Stevenson (Edinburgh, 1870), (ii, no. cccclxxxiv, 23 November 1297) shows this to be erroneous

|

|

|Inchaffray Abbey

|150px

|community of brethren
foundation unknown;
Augustinian Canons Regular
priory founded c. 1200 by Gilbert, Earl of Strathearn, granted to Scone;
raised to abbey status 1220 or 1221;
dissolved or secularised 1609-69, erected into temporal lordship 31 January 1609, established 15 February 1669

|The Abbey Church of Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Mary, Inchaffray

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/26164/details/inchaffray+abbey/ Site Record for Inchaffray Abbey Insula Missarum; Isle Of Masses; Inis Aifreen Details]
{{coord|56.383273

|Kinkell 'Cell'

|colspan=4|Augustinian Canons Regular
asserted cell of Inchaffray; actually parochial church

|Kinkell Commandery

|

|Knights Hospitaller — traditional – no evidence

|

|

|Loch Tay Priory

|

|Augustinian Canons Regular — from Scone
uncertain foundation;
island granted to Scone by Alexander I 1122

|The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Loch Tay

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/24932/details/loch+tay+priory+island/ Site Record for Loch Tay, Priory Island Eilean Nam Ban; Sybilla's Island; Isle Of Loch Tay Details]
{{coord|56.5839458

|Methven Monastery

|

|secular priests
founded between 1214 and 1223?

|

|

|Montrose Blackfriars

|

|Dominican Friars
founded 1230, purportedly by Sir Alan Durward;
apparently abandoned after being destroyed 14thC;
secularised 1570/1, revenues granted to the Burgh of Montrose by James VI 1 January 1570/1

|The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
____________________
Blackfriars Hospital

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/36232/details/montrose+dominican+friary/ Site Record for Montrose, Dominican Friary Blackfriars Hospital Details]
{{coord|56.7132802

|Muthill Monastery

|

|Culdees
founded between 1178 and 1195;
dissolved by 1236

|

|

|Perth Blackfriars

|

|Dominican Friars
founded before 1240, (purportedly 1231) by Alexander II;
secularised 1569, lands and revenues granted to the Burgh of Perth by James VI 9 August 1569

|St Andrew

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/28428/details/perth+dominican+friary/ Site Record for Perth, Dominican Friary Black Friars' Monastery Details]
{{coord|56.398719

|Perth Greyfriars

|

|Observant Franciscan Friars
founded before 1496, purported (spurious) papal bull of Pius II 26 July 1460 confirming building by Sir Laurence of Oliphant of Aberdelgie; (erroneous reference to 1358 foundation is evidently the Blackfriars' house)
dissolved or secularised 1559-60, destroyed by Reformers 1559; site became a cemetery 1580

|

|

|Perth Charterhouse

|

|Carthusian monks
founded 1429, proposed by James I, authorised by the Prior of Grande Chartreuse 19 August 1426, consent of the General Chapter;
dissolved or secularised 1569; possession passed to the Town Council 1602

|Vale of Virtue Priory

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/28432/details/perth+priory+chapel+and+hospital+of+st+leonard/ Site Record for Perth, Priory, Chapel And Hospital Of St Leonard Leonard Institution; St Leonard's Cottage; Carr's Croft; Perth, General Railway Station Details]
{{coord|56.3902142

|Perth, St Leonard's Priory

|

|Augustinian Canonesses
founded 13th century;
annexed to Perth Charterhouse (see immediately above) c. 1434

|St Leonard
____________________
St Leonard's Priory and Hospital

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/28432/details/perth+priory+chapel+and+hospital+of+st+leonard/ Site Record for Perth, Priory, Chapel And Hospital Of St Leonard Leonard Institution; St Leonard's Cottage; Carr's Croft; Perth, General Railway Station Details]
{{coord|56.390439

|Rindalgros Monastery?

|

|Benedictine monks
dependent on Reading, Berkshire;
founded 1147-53(?), granted to Reading by David I;
monastic community located here, though possibly no monastery was built
either transferred to Isle of May before 1151 or merged with Isle of May after 1151;
held by Isle of May 1231

|Rhynd Monastery;
Rindelgros Monastery

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/28204/details/rhynd/ Site Record for Rhynd Rindalgros; Rindelgros; Rindelcross Details]
{{coord|56.3645132

|St Fillan's Priory

|150px

|Augustinian Canons Regular — from Inchaffray
founded 1317, land granted patronage of church of Killin to Inchafray by Robert I 26 February 1317/8;
granted to Campbell of Glenorchy;
revenues apparently granted to Archibald Campbell of Glencarradale by the Crown 19 March 1607

|The Priory Church of Saint Fillan, St Fillan's
____________________
Strathfillan Priory;
Strath Fillan Priory

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/23842/details/strathfillan+priory/ Site Record for Strathfillan Priory St Fillan's Church; Saint Fillan's Priory And Burial Ground, Kirkton Details]
{{coord|56.4191892

|St Serf's Inch Priory, St Serf's Inch, Loch Leven

|

|Culdees
founded before 842, traditionally by Brude mac Dergard, King of the Picts – more likely by Brude mac Ferat;
Augustinian Canons Regular
dependent on St Andrews;
founded 1152/3 (c. 1150);
dissolved or secularised 1580;
now within an island nature reserve usually without public access; (HS)

|Portmoak Priory;
Portmoakso Priory;
Loch Leven Priory;
St Serf's Priory;
St Serf's Island Priory

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/27872/details/loch+leven+st+serf+s+island+st+serf+s+priory+church/ Site Record for Loch Leven, St Serf's Island, St Serf's Priory Church Culdee Monastery Details]
{{coord|56.187532

|Scone Abbey

|

|Culdees or Columban monks
evidence lacking;
Augustinian Canons Regular — from Nostell
(?re)founded c. 1120 purportedly by Alexander I

|The Abbey Church of the Holy Trinity, The Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Laurence, Saint Augustine and Saint Michael, Scone

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/28192/details/scone+abbey/ Site Record for Scone Abbey New Scone; Scone Park; Scone Palace Policies; Scone Priory Details]
{{coord|56.4226961

|Scotlandwell Red Friars

|

|originally hospital of St Mary;
Trinitarians
granted by David de Bernham, Bishop of St Andrews 2 January 1250/1;
secularised before 1591/2

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/27874/details/scotlandwell+priory/ Site Record for Scotlandwell Priory Well Caravan Site; Scotlandwell, St Mary's Hospital; Scotlandwell Priory Details]
{{coord|56.1994528

|Tullilum Whitefriars

|

|Carmelite Friars
founded 1262, chapel granted by Richard, Bishop of Dunkeld;
dissolved or secularised after 1559;
purportedly destroyed by Reformers 1559; granted to Patrick Murray of Tibbermore, confirmed by the Crown 23 June 1565Tullilum Whitefriars — Registrum Secreti Sigilli Regnum Scotorum, ed. M. Livingstone and others (Edinburgh, 1908— ), V, no.2124

|Perth Whitefriars;
Tulliburn Whitefriars
The White Chapel (nave)

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/28425/photographs/perth+whitefriars+street+carmelite+friary/ Site Record for Perth, Whitefriars Street, Carmelite Friary Tulliburn; White Friars Monastery; Carmelite Friary Of Tullilum; Riggs Road Photographs]
{{coord|56.3980407

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|Inchinnan Monastery

|

|traditionally a monastic settlement

|

|

|Inchinnan 'Preceptory'

|colspan=3|Knights Templar
no house – parochial church held by the Templars, and later the Hospitallers;
North Bar House on site

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/43093/details/inchinnan/ Site Record for Inchinnan Northbar House, Preceptory Of Greenend Of The Knights Templar And Knights Of St John Details]
{{coord|55.8925006

|Paisley Abbey ⁺

|150px

|Cluniac monks — from Wenlock, Shropshire
priory founded c. 1169 (1163);
raised to abbey status 1219 (1245);
dissolved 1587;
(CS)

|The Abbey Church of saints Mary, James, Mirin and Milburga

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/43139/details/paisley+abbey/ Site Record for Paisley Abbey Abbey Close, Paisley Abbey; Abercorn Aisle Details][http://www.paisleyabbey.org.uk/ Paisley Abbey]
{{coord|55.8448677

|Renfrew Priory

|

|Cluniac monks — from Cluny
founded c. 1163;
dissolved between 1169 and 1173

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/44174/details/renfrew/ Site Record for Renfrew Details]
{{coord|55.8731801

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!width = 20%|Formal name or dedication
& alternative names

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|Ancrum Preceptory

|

|Knights Hospitaller
purported preceptory or hospital - conjectural (secular foundation at Ancrum Spittal)

|

|

|Ancrum Red Friars

|

|Trinitarians
supposed houseAncrum Red Friars — Geographical Collections relating to Scotland made by Walter Macfarlane (SHS, 1906-08), iii, p.158 — evidence lacking

|

|

|Berwick Austin Friars

|colspan=4| Formerly located in Scotland until Capture of Berwick (1482). See List of monastic houses in Northumberland

|Berwick Blackfriars

|colspan=4| Formerly located in Scotland until Capture of Berwick (1482). See List of monastic houses in Northumberland

|Berwick Greyfriars

|colspan=4| Formerly located in Scotland until Capture of Berwick (1482). See List of monastic houses in Northumberland

|Berwick Priory

|colspan=4| Formerly located in Scotland until Capture of Berwick (1482). See List of monastic houses in Northumberland

|Berwick Red Friars

|colspan=4| Formerly located in Scotland until Capture of Berwick (1482). See List of monastic houses in Northumberland

|Berwick Friars of the Sack

|colspan=4| Formerly located in Scotland until Capture of Berwick (1482). See List of monastic houses in Northumberland

|Berwick Whitefriars

|colspan=4| Formerly located in Scotland until Capture of Berwick (1482). See List of monastic houses in Northumberland

|Charterhouse

|colspan=4|Carthusian monks
no evidence of monastic house – probable interpretation of reference to Perth Charterhouse

|Coldingham Priory ⁺

|150px

|monks and nuns
double house;
founded before 661 and 664 by Ebba, daughter of King Æthelfrith of Northumbria;
damaged by fire c. 683, and abandoned by most of the community;
nuns
dependent on Lindisfarne before 854;
destroyed in raids by the Danes c. 870;
Benedictine monks
dependent on Durham;
shire granted to Durham by King Edgar c. 1098;
founded before 1139;
dependent on Dunfermline 14th-15thC;
monks evicted 1532, 1542 and 1544/5;
destroyed in warfare by 4 February 1551/2;
dissolved 1606;
most of remaining buildings destroyed by Cromwell 1648;
part of conventual church restored;
now in parochial use

|The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Saint Ebba and Saint Cuthbert, Coldingham

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/60143/details/coldingham+church/ Site Record for Coldingham Church Coldingham Priory Church; Coldingham Priory, Claustral Remains; Coldingham Benedictine Priory Details]
{{coord|55.8864591

|Coldstream Priory

|

|Cistercian nuns
founded before 1166 by Earl Gospatrick;
dissolved or secularised 1621, erected into a temporal lordship for Sir John Hamilton of Trabroun

|

|

|Crail Priory

|

| apocryphal establishment of nuns

|

|

|Eccles Priory

|

|Cistercian nuns
purportedly founded 1156 (or 1145 or 1155), attributed to Earl Gospatrick, or a countess of March (possibly Derdere, wife of Earl Gospatrick);
dissolved or secularised 1609; erected into a temporal lordship of Sir George Hume 24 June 1609

|

|

|Dryburgh Abbey

|150px

|Premonstratensian Canons — from Alnwick
daughter house of Alnwick;
founded 1150;
dissolved or secularised 1606;
(HS)

|The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Dryburgh

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/55618/details/dryburgh+abbey/ Site Record for Dryburgh Abbey Details]
{{coord|55.5772803

|Fogo Priory

|150px

|Tironensian monks — from Kelso
dependent on Kelso;
founded between 1259 and 1297, church of St Nicholas granted to Kelso by Patrick Corbet;
dissolution unknown

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/58484/details/fogo+st+nicholas+chapel/ Site Record for Fogo, St Nicholas' Chapel Details]
{{coord|55.7356402

|Jedburgh Abbey

|150px

|land granted by Ecgred, Bishop of Lindisfarne c. 830;
Augustinian Canons Regular — apparently from St-Quentin, Beauvais
priory founded c. 1138 (1148) by David I with the assistance of John, Bishop of Glasgow;
erroneously referred to as Cluniac in one manuscript;
raised to abbey status c. 1154;
dissolved or secularised 1696;
(HS)

|The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Jedburgh

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/57020/details/jedburgh+abbey/ Site Record for Jedburgh Abbey Jedburgh, Augustinian Abbey Of St Mary Details]
{{coord|55.4766524

|Jedburgh Blackfriars

|

|locally but inaccurately cited Dominican FriarsJedburgh Blackfriars — included in Dumfries listsJedburgh Blackfriars — Watson, History of the Franciscan Friary of Jedburgh, HNBC, 1906, p.82

|

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/96554/details/jedburgh+high+street+trinity+church/ Site Record for Jedburgh, High Street, Trinity Church Blackfriars Church Details][http://www.scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/site/id/4910/name/Blackfriars+Church+Jedburgh+Borders Blackfriars Church - Jedburgh, Borders - Scottish Church Heritage Research]
{{coord|55.479933

|Jedburgh Greyfriars

|

|Observant Franciscan Friars
founded before 1505; allegedly built 1513 by the nobles of the Border;
dissolved or secularised unknown

|

|

|Kelso Abbey

|150px

|Tironensian monks
(community founded at Selkirk c. 1113);
transferred from Selkirk in 1128;
dissolved or secularised 1607;
(HS)

|The Abbey Church of Saint Mary and Saint John, Kelso

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/58418/details/kelso+bridge+street+abbey/ Site Record for Kelso, Bridge Street, Abbey Monastery At Kelso; Kelso Abbey Details]
{{coord|55.5972259

|Makerstoun Charterhouse

|

|Carthusian monks
land granted to the Carthusians at Perth by Archibald, Earl of Douglas 2 February 1433/4; no evidence of monastic foundation

|

|

|Melrose Abbey

|150px

|Cistercian monks — from Rievaulx/Holmcultram
founded 1136/7 by David I;
dissolved 1598;
bestowed on James Stewart, Commendator of Kelso;
secularised 1609, erected into a temporal lordship for John Ramsay, Viscount Haddington, becoming Lord Melrose;
(HS)

|The Abbey Church of Saint Mary and Saint John, Melrose

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/55738/details/melrose+abbey/ Site Record for Melrose Abbey Details]
{{coord|55.5991019

|Old Melrose Monastery

|

|Celtic monks
possibly from Iona
founded between 635 and 651;
destroyed by Kenneth mac Alpin 839;
under the bishops of Lindisfarne until 854;
attempted refoundation by Aldwin of Jarrow;
abandoned 1074;
church of St Cuthbert founded;
dependent on Durham until between 1124 and 1136;
exchanged for the church at Berwick by King David I between 1124 and 1136;
annexed to Cistercian monastery at Melrose

|St Cuthbert's Chapel

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/55631/details/old+melrose+st+cuthbert+s+chapel/ Site Record for Old Melrose, St Cuthbert's Chapel Details]
{{coord|55.5977199

|Peebles Red Friars

|150px

|Trinitarians
church built after 9 May 1261, when cross of purported relics of 'St Nicholas the bishop' was found, motivating Alexander III to build a church;
founded before 1296, when the master swore fealty to Edward I;
friary apparently founded c. 1448 with the approval of the bailies;
bailies claim to have expelled friars c. 1463, authorised by the Pope 21 April 1463; expulsion apparently not effected;
new foundation consented by petition of James III and his queen, 3 February 1473/4;
dissolved or secularised 1560/1;
lands erected to barony for John Hay of Yester 3 February 1624;
church in use until 1784

|The Friary Church of the Holy Trinity, Peebles
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|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/51476/details/peebles+cross+road+cross+kirk/ Site Record for Peebles, Cross Road, Cross Kirk Details]
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|Roxburgh Greyfriars

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|Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual
founded 1232 or 1232-4 by Alexander II;Roxburgh Greyfriars — foundation: probably spurious charter of foundation 18 October 1232 cited by Manuscript collections of Father Marianus Brockie (Scottish Catholic Archives, Edinburgh), pp.1281-2
destroyed: burned by the English 14 September 1454Roxburgh Greyfriars — destruction: Letters and Papers, foreign and domestic of the reign of Henry VIII ed. by J. S. Brewer and others (London, 1864-1932), xx² no. 456, 533
dissolved or secularised after 1547, evidently; partly re-roofed November 1547 and in use for English troops

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|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/58413/details/roxburgh+franciscan+friary/ Site Record for Roxburgh, Franciscan Friary Convent Of Grey Friars And Church Of St Peter Details]
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|Roxburgh Priory

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|purported Augustinian Canons Regular — probable confusion with Fransciscan friary

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|Roxburgh Priory

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|Cistercian monks — unfounded assertion;Roxburgh — A. O. Anderson, Early Sources, ii, p.183, note, according to papal legate declaration, and referring to the exemption of the church of St James, synodal and episcopal aids: 'It seems, therefore, to have been occupied by Cistercian monks at this time' church of St James held by Kelso, the settlement of monks, or of Cistercians, is unsubstantiated

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|St Bothan's Priory,
Abbey St Bathans

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|Cistercian nuns
founded 13thC (possibly during the reign of William the Lion) possibly by a countess of March, or by Ada, daughter of William the Lion, or Christina, wife of Earl Patrick, or Euphemia, wife of Patrick, Earl of Dunbar;
leased to Alexander, Lord Home 16 June 1565/6;
conferred on Elizabeth Hume 8 March 1565/6, demitted before 23 July 1617;
granted to David Lindsay 23 July 1617;
dissolved or secularised 1622, erected into a temporal lordship for David Lindsay

|St Bathan's Priory

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/58780/details/abbey+st+bathans+church/ Site Record for Abbey St Bathans Church Abbey St Bathan's Kirk; St Bathan's Church; St Bathan's Convent Details][http://cistercians.shef.ac.uk/cistercian_life/women/nuns/nunneries.php The Cistercians in Yorkshire — Cistercian nunneries in Britain and Ireland]{{Cite web |url=http://poms.cch.kcl.ac.uk/db/record/person/5391/ |title=POMS - Paradox of Medieval Scotland |access-date=16 February 2012 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304033737/http://poms.cch.kcl.ac.uk/db/record/person/5391/ |url-status=dead }}[https://archive.today/20120712011145/http://monasticmatrix.usc.edu/monasticon/index.php?function=detail&id=1081 Monasticon]
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|Selkirk Abbey

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|Tironensian monks — from Tiron
founded c. 1113 by Earl David;
transferred to Kelso c. 1128

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|{{Cite web |url=http://www.selkirk.bordernet.co.uk/history/selkirkabbey.html |title=Selkirk Abbey, History of Selkirk Scotland |access-date=16 February 2012 |archive-date=1 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100501145432/http://www.selkirk.bordernet.co.uk/history/selkirkabbey.html |url-status=dead }}

|Selkirk Blackfriars

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|Dominican BlackfriarsSelkirk Blackfriars — included in Dumfries lists
charter of James Tweedie of Drumelzier, 28 September 1358, granted site to build a new monastery on the instruction of King David IISelkirk Blackfriars — charter of dubious merit (purportedly bearing the seal of Alexander Maxwell, Archdeacon of 'Tuuedaliae' — if Tweedale: no such archdeaconry, if Teviotdale: no record of archdeacon of that name) cited by Manuscript collections of Father Marianus Brockie (Scottish Catholic Archives, Edinburgh), p.1242 — evidence lacking

|St Ninian

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|Cambuskenneth Abbey

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|Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian — from Arroaise
founded 1147; (HS)

|The Abbey Church of Saint Mary, Cambuskenneth

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/47271/details/cambuskenneth+abbey/ Site Record for Cambuskenneth Abbey Abbey Of St Mary Of Stirling Details]
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|Dunblane Monastery

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|early foundation, possible Culdees — unsubstantiated;
cathedral founded before 1214–1223

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|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/24672/details/dunblane+kirk+street+dunblane+cathedral/ Site Record for Dunblane, Kirk Street, Dunblane Cathedral Dunblane Parish Church; Cathedral Church Of Saint Blaan And Saint Laurence Details][http://www.dunblanecathedral.org.uk/ Dunblane Cathedral - Home]
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|Inchcailleoch Priory

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|nuns of unspecified order - traditional (assumed from the name of the island - purportedly "the island of old women"), parochial church — no evidence of monastic foundation

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|Inchmahome Priory, Lake of Menteith

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|Augustinian Canons Regular
independent priory founded 1238 by Walter, Earl of Menteith; dissolved or secularised 1604; erected into temporal lordship for John Erskine, Second Earl of Mar 1604 and 1606; (HS)

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|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/24063/details/lake+of+menteith+inchmahome+priory/ Site Record for Lake Of Menteith, Inchmahome Priory Inchmahome Abbey Details]
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|Stirling Blackfriars

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|Dominican Friars
founded before 1249 by Alexander II;
purportedly destroyed by Reformers June 1559;
putatively granted to Alexander Erskine of Cangnoir May 1560;
secularised 1567, granted to the municipality of Stirling by Queen Mary 15 April 1567, though Erskine retained possession until 1652

|St Laurence

|[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/46223/details/stirling+dominican+friary/ Site Record for Stirling, Dominican Friary Blackfriars Church Details][http://sites.google.com/site/stirlingblackfriars/ Stirling.Blackfriars]
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|Stirling Greyfriars

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|Observant Franciscan Friars
founded 1494, allegedly by James IV;
dissolved or secularised 1559-67; destroyed by Reformers 1559; granted to the magistrates 15 April 1567

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|Ancaria

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|Cistercian monks, mentioned 1530

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|Crenach Red Friars

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|supposed Trinitarians, located in Cromarty (Highland Region), purportedly founded c. 1271 by Patrick Murray;
possibly indicates Greenock, Renfrewshire (or Greenock, East Ayrshire), or Carnwath, Lanarkshire — no monastic house at those locations – probably fictitious

|Crennach;
Crenwathe

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|Crusay

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|Augustinian Canons Regular, alleged foundation in the Western Isles, possible misreading of Oronsay

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|Molista

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|nuns of unspecified order — suggested site of a house on the basis of the name: "the town (or house) of the black old women"

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|Oggerstone Preceptory

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|Knights Templar
given as fort and barony of TemplarsOggerstone Preceptory — J. Spottiswoode, An account of all the Religious Houses that were in Scotland at the time of the Reformation (included in R. Keith, An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops (Edinburgh, 1824)), p.435 — actual reference to Ogerstone, Huntingdon, England (see List of monastic houses in Cambridgeshire)

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|unlocated

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|Carthusian monks, petition by Archibald, Earl of Douglas, granted by the Pope 5 June 1419 supplication for licence to found a house; projected foundation never implemented

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