Inchicronan Priory (

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: ''Prióireacht Inse Chrónáin'' is an early monastic site, possibly founded 6th century by patron, St Cronan of Tuamgraney

Crusheen Crusheen () is a small village in County Clare, Ireland, in the civil parish of Crusheen (Inchicronan). Location The village is 10 kilometres northeast of Ennis on the R458 road to Gort. It is in the parish of Crusheen (Inchicronan) in the Rom ...

. The abbey was refounded about 1198AD by Donald O'Brien, (King of Limerick), as a daughter house of

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. It became a

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in 1302AD and was dissolved c.1543 by Henry VIII, but it was restored and in use by 'friars' in the reign of

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and became a parish church again in 1615 when Donogh, Earl of Thomond; granted it to Henry, Earl of Thomond.

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* * Christian monasteries established in the 7th century 7th-century churches in Ireland {{RC-church-stub