School: Eidhneach
- Location:
- Inagh, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Sr Mac Gearachaigh
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Quin Abbey is situated about fifteen miles from the parish of Inagh.This Abbey was built in the year 1402 by Sioda Cam McNamara,Lord of Clan Cuilein.In 1433the pope gave permission to Mahon Dall Mc Namara to take it a resident place for friars.There they lived until Cromwell soldiers razed it to the ground.The friars took refuge in Ennis .In the course of excavations made by the Irish Board of Works in 1882 ,it was found that Quin Abbey had been built on the site of a Norman Castle.
