Institution
Movilla Abbey
Movilla Abbey was a monastery at Newtownards in County Down, Northern Ireland, founded around 540 by Saint Finnian of Movilla. It became one of the leading monastic schools of early medieval Ulster and is said to have taught Saint Columba. It later became an Augustinian priory, dissolved in the 16th century; ruins of its church survive.
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