Macosquin Abbey
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Macosquin Abbey, formally known as Clarus Fons, was a Cistercian Monastery in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom.[1][2] The Monastery was located on Abbey Lane, Macosquin, Northern Ireland.
The abbey may have owned the churches at Burt[3] and Agivey.[4]
There may have been a monastic establishment in Macosquin as early as the 6th century, however, the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of the Clear Springs was founded in 1217 by monks from the monastery of Morimond, a daughter house of Citeaux in France.[5] Earlier spellings of the village's name are Moycosquin and Moycoscain.