The Ross Errilly Friary (Irish: Mainistir an Rois). County Galway, Ireland. Among the best-preserved medieval monastic sites in the country. Established c.1460. The community never had an abbot.
  An abbey without an abbot. Catholic monastery of Franciscan monks. Destroyed and plundered. Annihilated.
  Amazing view.
  There are no effigies or decorations in the cloister.
  Several parts of the inner walls are still covered with the original plaster.
  A rough and anguished life.
  They threw the bell from the bell tower into the nearby Black River.
  Moss-covered skulls, human thighs and leg bones are scattered all over the place.
   The monks built cabins on a small island. The island, which no longer exists. 
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