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The monastery was founded early in the 7th century by St. Colman son of Duagh, a member of one of the local royal families. It has one of the finest collections of churches in Ireland. The most conspicuous feature is the excellently preserved Round Tower which shares a lean with its more famous counterpart at Pisa.
br> Beside it is the Cathedral, of which the west gable, with its blocked-up flat-headed doorway (11th - 12th century), is the earliest part. The rest of the nave dates largely to about 1200. In the 15th century a fine doorway with the head of a bishop above it was inserted in the south wall, and it was probably then that the west doorway was blocked up.
Probably at the same period the two transepts were added, the west window inserted, and the chancel was possibly also rebuilt. Note that folk-are Crucifixions in the north transept, which were removed from the south transept in 1765. Not far away, in a field to the north, is St. John's Church, a small (12th Century?) church with rounded and pointed windows; a chancel was added to it later.
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Further north is @Glebe House' - a two-storey house of military appearance (possibly the Abbot's house) - built in the 13th century, though altered later. In a field to the north-west is O'Heyne's Church, built in the first half of the 13th century with a beautiful chancel arch supported by pillars with animal and floral decoration, and also with two excellently carved east windows. When the north wall of the church collapsed, probably in the 14th or 15th century, a new wall was built inside int, incorporating the original north doorway, and much of the west wall was built at the same time. Beside this church are the remains of another of uncertain date, but with a 15th century window above the door.
East of the Cathedral, and on the other side of the road, is St. Mary's church with a round-headed east window, built around 1200. The south doorway seems to have been inserted in its present position in the 15th century. The churches were much plundered early in the 13th century. After the Reformation, the monastery passed to Richard 2nd Earl of Clanrickarde.
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