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Inishlounaght Nunnery

📍 Tipperary ⛪ Cistercian 📅 13th Century 🏛️ dissolved

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Cistercian? nuns purported house adjoining the Cistercian monks’ abbey (see immediately above); foundation and status unknown; dissolved 1228 by Stephen of Lexington

Cistercian? nuns purported house adjoining the Cistercian monks’ abbey (see immediately above); foundation and status unknown; dissolved 1228 by Stephen of Lexington

Historical Information

Dissolved: 1228

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