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| RUINS, CONG ABBEY, CO. GALWAY.- These magnificent monastic remains are justly considered unsurpassed in Ireland. For fifteen weary years they sheltered in their shadowy cloisters the unfortunate and unwarlike Roderick O'Conor, the last Ard Righ, or High King, of Ireland, whose weakness allowed his country to fall an easy prey to the wiles of the unscrupulous Henry II. |
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