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    Rushen Abbey is a former abbey on the Isle of Man, located in Ballasalla. Originally home for monks of the Savignac order, it soon came under Cistercian...
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    kings of Mann and the Isles is buried at the abbey, as are many of the Bishops of Sodor and Man. Rushen Abbey on the Isle of Man was built on land owned...
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    Castle Rushen (Manx: Cashtal Rosien) is a medieval castle located in the Isle of Man's historic capital, Castletown, in the south of the Island. It towers...
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    around nearby Rushen Abbey. The abbey was originally for monks of the Congregation of Savigny, but later came under Cistercian control. The abbey was an important...
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    composed and written in 1261 or 1262 at Rushen Abbey on the island, shortly after the time of the Cistercian abbey's dedication in 1257, which is the final...
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    to the other nearby attraction, part of the Story of Mann located at Rushen Abbey. Some paths in this area form part of the Millennium Way, a long public...
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    London: Elliot Stock. p. 303. Joseph George Cumming. The Story Of Rushen Castle And Rushen Abbey, In The Isle Of Man. ISBN 1165077590. Barron, Evan MacLeod (1997)...
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    Printed for the Local Committee, by P. Curphey. The Story of Rushen Castle and Rushen Abbey, in the Isle of Man, London: Bell and Daldy, Fleet Street. 1857...
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  • upbringing. In the second quarter of the eleventh century, Óláfr founded Rushen Abbey, a reformed religious house on Mann. He further oversaw the formation...
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    (died 1374) was a Cistercian prelate who appears to have been a monk at Rushen Abbey on the Isle of Man (Mann), ascending to the rank of abbot there, before...
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