Ballybeg Priory, also known as Ballybeg Abbey, the Abbey of St Thomas, and St Thomas's Priory, is a 13th-century priory of the Augustinian order near the town of Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland. It is home to one of the best preserved and most substantial dovecots in Ireland. The priory was founded in 1229 and dissolved in 1541, the land and buildings passing into private hands. Those parts of the buildings that have escaped from the stone being removed for use in other buildings are mostly late medieval.
Ballybeg Priory in 2010
Ballybeg Priory
The interior wall of the dovecot
Buttevant is a medieval market town in County Cork, Ireland.
Main Street
St Mary's Church, Buttevant ca. 1900
Buttevant Convent 1879 by architect G.C. Ashlin
St. John's Church, Buttevant