Moon Ireland (Moon Travel Guides) by DeAngelis Camille

Author:DeAngelis, Camille [DeAngelis, Camille]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Avalon Publishing
Published: 2017-05-09T04:00:00+00:00

Sights

If Ballyvaughan is your entry into the Burren, you might want to visit Burren Exposure (in the village, tel. 065/707-7277, 9am-6pm daily Mar.-Nov.), which offers an outstanding audiovisual introduction to the area’s botany and geology.

Founded by Donal Mór O’Brien in 1194, most of what remains of Corcomroe Abbey (1.5 km southeast of Bealaclugga, signposted from the N67, free) dates to the early 13th century. The church’s transverse wall was erected in the 15th century, just after the Black Plague; the lay brothers had fled the monastery, and apparently the remaining monks wanted a smaller house of worship to suit their diminished community.

There’s a second morbid tale attached to this monastery. In 1317, two branches of the O’Brien clan (led by Dermot and Donough) were about to do battle near the abbey for dominion of the county. The evening before the battle, Donough O’Brien encountered a specter doing her washing among a mess of bloody limbs and severed heads in a stream near the abbey—one of which was Donough’s. The Morrigan (a Celtic war goddess who often appeared in this form) told the chieftain that this would be his fate if he went ahead into battle. Donough ignored her warning, and by the following night he and all his warriors were lying lifeless in the abbey.

The abbey is in a secluded spot, surrounded by farmlands, and like other monastic ruins, its land serves as a modern graveyard (which the local farmers’ dogs have been known to desecrate on occasion).

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