The
Augustinian Houses of the County Clare: |
Thomas
Johnson Westropp |
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Introduction Among
the monastic orders few will deny the high standing of the Augustinians,
yet, from whatever cause, their history in many important houses in western
Ireland is very little known, for they had no Wadding or Bruodin to collect
their scattered traditions after the great dispersion. It would also seem
as if the Franciscan and Dominican brethren lay nearer to the hearts of
the people, and made a bolder and partially successful struggle for existence,
making even those that bore rule over them to pity them. To collect scattered
records, and carefully to describe the picturesque remains of three of
the ruined Augustine houses in the heart of Clare is the object of this
paper. |