Glenluce Abbey

Glenluce Abbey
Abbey in 2005
Monastery information
Full nameComune Monasterii Beate Maeri de Valle Lucis
Other namesAbbey of Luce
OrderCistercian
Established1192
Disestablished1602
Mother houseDundrennan Abbey
DioceseDiocese of Galloway
Controlled churchesGlenluce
People
Founder(s)Lochlann, Lord of Galloway
Official nameGlenluce Abbey
TypeEcclesiastical: abbey
Designated21 October 1994
Reference no.SM90153

Glenluce Abbey, near to Glenluce, Scotland, 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.