abbeys around ennis

Founded by the O'Brien family in 1250 for the Franciscan Order on a good site close to the River Fergus, this friary was restored about 1300 by Turlough Mor O'Brien, who added the strikingly tall east window with its five slender lights and pointed top. There is a good deal of interesting sculpture and a partly restored cloister. Its monuments are famous, notably the McMahon tomb (15 th Century) with its carvings of the Passion....

The ruins, 1.5 km north of Clarecastle, of a priory of Canons Regular of St. Augustine, founded in 1189 by King Donal Mor O'Brien. The abbey was occupied until about 1650....