 still maintain a presence in the ancient monastery at Multyfarnham.First founded in 1268, during the English conquest of Ireland in the 17th century, it was raided six times and twice burnt out by the Crown forces battling the forces of the 'Irish of Meath'.During the wars of the 1640s it became an organisational centre for the enormously powerful and influential Franciscans in Ireland, who met there in their provincial assembly at the outbreak of the 1641 rebellion.