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Corcomroe Abbey

Corcomroe Abbey is an early 13th-century Cistercian monastery located in the north of the Burren region of County Clare, Ireland, a few… Read more…

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Corcomroe Abbey is an early 13th-century Cistercian monastery located in the north of the Burren region of County Clare, Ireland, a few miles east of the village of Ballyvaughan in the Barony of Burren. It was once known as "St. Mary of the Fertile Rock", a reference to the Burren's fertile soil.

The Romanesque ruins feature stone carvings that are considered to be among the finest in a Cistercian church in Ireland.: 7  The abbey appears in W.B. Yeats' play The Dreaming of Bones.: 14  They constitute a National Monument and are open to the public.

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Address (Unnamed Road), H91, Ireland
Coordinates 53°7'36.646" N, 9°3'14.444" W
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