The Abbey of St. Mary de Hogges was a medieval religious house for women, situated near what is now College Green in central Dublin. Although little remains of the original buildings, the abbey once occupied an important place in the religious landscape of the medieval city. Its unusual name came from the district known as Hogges, an area that existed before modern Dublin took shape around it.

The abbey belonged to the tradition of religious communities dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Its nuns lived a life shaped by prayer, worship, and the observance of religious discipline. Like other medieval houses, it would also have depended on lands, benefactors, and local connections to sustain its community.

As Dublin developed into a major centre of English administration in Ireland, the religious houses within the city became woven into its civic and political life. St. Mary de Hogges stood in an area that later became one of Dublin’s most prominent public spaces, close to the site of the present-day College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, founded in 1592.

The abbey was suppressed during the dissolution of the monasteries in the sixteenth century, and its buildings eventually disappeared as the city expanded. Its history is now less visible than that of Dublin’s surviving medieval churches, but the name preserves a small piece of the city’s earlier landscape and the lives of the women who worshipped there.