A lovely ruin, in very good shape.

Wikipedia informs us that it was built between 1402 and 1433 by Sioda Cam MacNamara, for Fathers
Purcell and Mooney, friars of the Franciscan order. In 1541, during the Reformation, King Henry VIII
confiscated the abbey and it passed into the hands of Conor O'Brian, Earl of Thomond. In about 1590
the MacNamaras regained control of the abbey and once again set about repairing and restoring it. In
about 1640 the building became a college and is alleged to have had 800 students. Oliver Cromwell
arrived only 10 years later, murdering the monks and destroying the abbey. In 1671 the abbey was once
again restored, but never regained its former status. Eventually in 1760 the monks were expelled,
although the last Friar, John Hogan, remained there until his death in 1820, by which time the
buildings were ruined by neglect.