- Saddell Abbey
Infobox monastery
name= Saddell Abbey
order=Cistercian
founder=Raghnall mac Somhairle
established=1207
mother=Mellifont Abbey
disestablished=1507
diocese=Diocese of Argyll
churches= Inchmarnock; Kilchattan; Kilkivan
people=Saddell Abbey was a Cistercian monastery in
Argyll ,Scotland , founded in 1207 by Raghnall, son of Somairle mac Gille Brigte. It was established by monks fromMellifont Abbey inIreland . Very little is known about the abbey and its history. It probably enjoyed several centuries of good monastic life, but by the reign ofJames IV of Scotland monastic life had apparently disappeared. It was proposed to thePope that the bishopric of Argyll should be moved from Lismore to Saddell as the former was in ruins. Nothing ever came of the idea, but the bishops of Argyll did sometimes abbot the title "Commendator of Saddell".ee also
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Abbot of Saddell Bibliography
* Cowan, Ian B. & Easson, David E., "Medieval Religious Houses: Scotland With an Appendix on the Houses in the Isle of Man", Second Edition, (London, 1976), pp. 77-8
* Watt, D.E.R. & Shead, N.F. (eds.), "The Heads of Religious Houses in Scotland from the 12th to the 16th Centuries", The Scottish Records Society, New Series, Volume 24, (Edinburgh, 2001), pp. 186-7
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