Saint Monenna(a.k.a. Moninne, Darerca) supposedly founded her first monastery of nuns at Faughart ca. 484, then moved to Beg-erin under St. Ibar, then returned north to Killeevy (see The Life of Saint Monenna by Conchubranus).
See The list of abbesses in Conchubranus’ Life of saint Monenna. Saint Monenna, founder / Saint Conchenna, abbess, d. 654 (needs verification; probably earlier), sister of Saint Lugad of Clonfeacle (needs verification) / coarb Moninna d. 1077 / Alicia Negan McDonnechy O'Hanlon, last abbess
taxed by Niall, son of Murray O'Lochlain, for royal heir's feasting, 1163
valued 40s. 10 Mar 1542 at dissolution; sites and temporalities granted to Sir Marmaduke Whitchurch and J. Wakeman, tithes granted to Marmaduke (Medieval Religious Houses, Ireland: With an Appendix to Early Sites,321)
extant remains
TCD MS 1292 (olim H 1 18), f. 66.
Annala Uladh: Annals of Ulster otherwise Annala Senait, Annals of Senat: a chronicle of Irish affairs from A.D. 431 to A.D. 1540, i. 38, 560, 444; Triadis thaumaturgae seu divorum Patricii, Columbae et Brigidae ... acta ... collecta, scholiis & commentariis illustrata, & pluribus appendicibus aucta; complectitur tomus secundus sacrarum ejusdem insulae antiquitatum, nunc primum in lucem prodiens,564; Chronicum Scotorum. A chronicle of Irish affairs, from the earliest times to A. D. 1135; with a supplement, containing the events from 1141 to 1150,39; Acta sanctorum: veteris et maioris scotiæ sev hiberniæ sanctorum insulae, Partim ex variis per Europam MS. Codd. exscripta, partim ex antiquis monumentis & probatis Authoribus eruta & congesta; omnia Notis & Appendicibus illustrata, 337; AActa sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntu : vel à catholicis scriptoribus celebrantur, quae ex Latinis & Graecis..., lvi. 332; The Life of Saint Monenna by Conchubranus; The list of abbesses in Conchubranus’ Life of saint Monenna
