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Lorrha Abbey

📍 Tipperary ⛪ Benedictine 🏛️ Uncertain

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Suggested Benedictine monks founded by St Deicola? (Deicolus?)

Suggested Benedictine monks founded by St Deicola? (Deicolus?)

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