The ruins of Talley Abbey in Carmarthenshire, Wales is located at the edge of a small village. The abbey was founded by a Welsh ruler, Lord Rhys, and the group of monks that resided here were known as the "white canons" or Premonstratensians for their dress. The monks fished in the lakes and became wealthy and started to build a church. The church ceased building at the end of the 1100s after they had a rival with the Cistercian monks, and this set the order into decline and bankrupcy. This was the only order of the "white canons" in Wales.
The church was never finished, and the remains of the footprints and part of a tower of the structure still remain.
The abbey ruins are at the edge of the small village with a few spaces of street parking at the entrance to the site of the ruins.
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