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Newtown Abbey is a medieval monastery and National Monument located in Trim, County Meath, Ireland.LocationNewtown Abbey is located about 1.2 km (¾ mile) east of Trim town centre, on the north bank of the Boyne.HistoryThe Abbey was founded by Simon Rochfort, Bishop of Meath, for Canons Regular ("Augustinians") of the Order of St. Victor about 1206, and was dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul.A synod was held at Newtown in 1216, which turned the sees of the churches of Trim, Kells, Slane, Skryne, and Dunshaughlin into rural deaneries.In 1307, Richard Sweetman, the prior, was accused of murdering Robert Mody, one of the friars, and of assisting his brother, William Sweetman, to kill another canon. The prior gave Hugh de Lacie and John le Blounde, of Rathregan, as bail For his appearance at the next assizes. There is no record of the result of the trial.William Shirwood, Bishop of Meath, was interred at Newtown Abbey in 1482.The Abbey was suppressed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1537.
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