The Review of Safeguarding Practice in the Irish Province of Dominican Friars, carried out by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland found 52 allegations had been reported to gardaí and the Health Service Executive.
Two friars have been convicted of offences against children since 1975.
Some 12 of the 27 friars against whom allegations were made were still alive at the time to the review.
Four of the friars were recorded as “out of ministry, but still members of the order”, a further four had left the order and four more were either still in ministry or retired.