Tynan Abbey
Coordinates: 54°19′52″N 6°49′23″W / 54.331°N 6.823°W
Tynan Abbey in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, was a large neo-gothic-romantic country house built c. 1750 (later renovated c. 1815) and situated outside the village of Tynan. It was home to the Stronge family until 1981, when it was bombed; its ruins were demolished in 1998, having stood for 249 years.
The house on this site that replaced the original 13th-century abbey was called Fairview and was the home of the Manson family, it was acquired by the Stronges through the marriage of Dr. John Stronge and Elinor Manson. At this time Fairview was described by Thomas Ashe as a "very pretty house, well timbered and regularly built. It is two stories high. There are good chambers and garrets above staires, a hansome parlour, a common Hall, a Kitchen Sellars and their Convenient Offices a Good Stable Barne and Cow house a Good Garden and Orchard". The library, in which the last of the Stronges were killed, was believed to have dated to this original house.
This was an area with a peculiar history; its 1640s rector Robert Maxwell told pamphleteers that 154,000 Protestants had been massacred there in the 1649 Rising. This figure would have represented one-tenth of the entire island of Ireland (historians put the number of Protestants killed at somewhere between 527 and 1,259; many hundreds of Catholics were killed in reprisals by the Protestant incomers). This figure was used by Oliver Cromwell as the basis for his invasion of Ireland during the English Civil War.
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