Rushen Abbey
- Item sets
- Archaeology
- Name
- Rushen Abbey
- Description
- Cistercian abbey founded in 1134, the only abbey on the Island. The monks of Rushen compiled the Chronicon Manniae et Insularum, the chronicle that preserved the Island's history from the Norse period onward. A Manx document, produced on Manx soil, preserving a Manx understanding of the past. The manuscript now sits in the British Library in London. There have been campaigns to bring it home. It has not come home yet. Henry VIII dissolved Rushen Abbey in 1540, its assets stripped and sold off in three months.
- Date
- 1134-1540
- Place
- Rushen Abbey
- Type
- Monastery
- Chronicle