Tintern Abbey County Wexford Jan 8

In the On the way to the light house we stopped at the Tintern Abbey.  The last family member to live at the Abbey did so during the time of Henry VIII.  The grounds were lovely, and there were many locals walking in the sunshine, yes sunshine, with their dogs. The river running through the grounds was overflowing its banks with the recent, torrential rains. "The Abbey – which is today in ruins, some of which have been restored – was founded in c1200 by William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, as the result of a vow he had made when his boat was caught in a storm nearby. Once established, the abbey was colonised by monks from the Cistercian abbey at Tintern in Monmouthshire, Wales, of which Marshall was also patron.
After the Dissolution of the Monasteries the abbey and its grounds were granted to Anthony Colclough of Staffordshire, a soldier of Henry VIII. The final member of the Colclough family to reside at Tintern was Lucey Marie Biddulph Colclough who donated the abbey to the nation"