 Conan (or Cunan) contributed to Patristic literature, as he is credited with the "capitula" or chapter-headings prefixing each section of St. Bernard's "Sermons on the Song of Songs", one of the works for which that author was titled a Doctor of the Church.The abbey was dissolved by King Henry VIII of England in 1536 and sold to Sir Rice Mansel.Significant holdings of the monastery library appear to have survived this event, including the Annales de Margan.