Excerpt from "Guide to Clonegal Castle" by The Rev. Lawrence Durdin-Robertson M.A. (Dublin), Baron Strathloch, Priest of Isis, 1990
"The old ruins to the North of the Castle have always been known as the "Abbey." It may have been used by Franciscan monks, or it may have been part of the Augustinian Abbey of Abbeydown, two miles to the East. There are no records (written); it is thoughtto be over 600 years old ... It has two very old cells, which may have been oratory chapels. They have 3'6" roofs and date back to the 15th Century."
Reprinted here by permission.
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