| Founded
in 1180 by Donal Mór  O'Brien,
king of Thomond this Cistercian Abbey has been restored, and gives visitors
the opportunity to glimpse medieval monastic life.
The
original construction is mostly obscured by a fifteenth century renovation,
the original west wall of the church , together with trace of the lancet
windows and portions of the nave survive, as well as portions of the nave
and the rib crossings in the choir and crossings.
The
rest of the church and cloister result from fifteenth and twentieth century
rebuilding.
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For
a time after the dissolution of the monasteries in 1540 the abbey
was transformed into a secular college.
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