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School: Abbeylara

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Abbeylara, Co. Longford
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John O' Meara
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0765, Page 0644

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    There is an old monastery in the district. It was built by Sir Richard Tuite. It is that he built it in this place because one day he was walking around the place and his hearing was restored to him. He had been deaf for a long time before that. It was abandoned about three hundred years ago.
    It was plundered by Cromwell and his soldiers. It was burned also. There was a lot of ornamented stones around the monastery long ago but there are none there now.
    It was built in the eleventh century. There was a lot of Monks in the monastery. The Monks belonged to the Cistercian Order. When Cromwell destroyed the monastery the Monks left it. They did not come back again after that.
    All the precious things that were in the monastery are hidden in a well which is
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Reilly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derragh, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Mr Reilly
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    56
    Address
    Derragh, Co. Longford