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Lough Corrib : its shores and islands ; with notices of Lough Mask (1872)

Wilde, W. R. (William Robert), 1815-1876 · Dublin : McGlashan & Gill · leaf 48

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eferences made tothis place by our annalists and ecclesiologists, it is said, underthe date of 1296, that Philip de Blund, Archdeacon ofTuam,during the time of the dispute respecting the episcopacy ofEnachdun, took by violence from the friars of Clare-Galway,in which place they had been deposited,… … There are not now many tombs of note within the pre-cincts of this venerable and still beautiful pile ; but among thewell-cut flagstones paving the aisles of nave and transept, maybe seen early indications of the agricultural skill of the peopleof this great fertile plain or Clare, in the number…

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