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New Season of Lectures & Events


Bishop MacKiernan Memorial Lecture

'Fish, flour and fabric: the lifestyle of the friars in late medieval Ireland'.

by Dr Colman O Clabaigh OSB

in

The Kilmore Diocesan Pastoral Centre

8.00 pm, Wednesday, 31st  January




Creevelea Abbey

 

Situated near Dromahair, Co Leitrim, the abbey was founded in 1508 by Owen O’Rourke, Prince of Breifne.

 

It experienced very mixed fortunes from 1584 onwards and especially during the Cromwellian Settlement.

 

It eventually closed in 1680.