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A History of the Franciscan Order in Ireland (Author: Donagh Mooney)

Subsection 3

Lis-Laghtin

This Convent stands on an island in the Shannon,30 and was


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founded31 for the Family of the Observantines. It has not been occupied by the friars for a long time. I have met an old lay brother who was professed there, but have never been in the place, and know nothing more about it, except that it is said that the situation is solitary and surrounded by woods.