Glenluce Abbey

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Glenluce Abbey was a Cistercian monastery called also Abbey of Luce or Vallis Lucis and founded around 1190 by Rolland or Lochlann, Lord of Galloway and Constable of Scotland. Following the Scottish Reformation in 1560, the abbey fell into disuse. The ruins were consolidated and partly restored in 1898.

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Glenluce, Wigtownshire, United Kingdom

Established
1190

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