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Portumna Abbey
53.0861° N, -8.2176° E
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Portumna Abbey is a medieval Cistercian (and later Dominican) friary and National Monument located in Portumna, Ireland.
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Formal expulsion of Dominicans
1 May 1698
Notable marriage during war
9 January 1689
Prior's death
24 July 1711
Cistercian chapel founded
1254
Dominican friary founded
1426
Dissolution and grant
c. 1582
Partial Church of Ireland use
1631
Dominicans reestablished
1640
Flight after Battle of Aughrim
1691
Choir used as Church of Ireland worship place
1762–1810
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