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Corcomroe Abbey

West Clare Municipal District, Italy

Corcomroe Abbey

Corcomroe Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Chorca Mrua) 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 t

o the Burren's fertile soil. The Gothic ruins feature stone carvings that are considered to be among the finest in a Cistercian church in Ireland. The abbey appears in W. B. Yeats' play The Dreaming of Bones. It is a National Monument and is open to the public.

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