Athenry Priory
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- Best time to go
- May–September
- Budget
- $
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
A Dominican friary founded in 1241 within the walled medieval town, its ruins among the most substantial of the order in the country. The long church, aisle and tower survive, along with carved tomb niches recording the Anglo-Norman families who endowed it. Repeatedly damaged and rebuilt through centuries of conflict, it was finally abandoned after the Cromwellian wars. Standing near the town's surviving gate and market cross, the priory forms part of one of the best preserved medieval urban landscapes on the island.
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