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| ASKEATON ABBEY, CO. LIMERICK.- The sacred structure, whose relics are pictured in the sketch, is one of the many erected by the different branches of the illustrious Geraldine family, who became "more Irish than the Irish" after a generation or two of them had been "by Irish mothers nursed." Askeaton Abbey was founded by James, the seventh Earl of Desmond, in 1420, as a Franciscan moneatery. |
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