Sligo Abbey Interior BW is a photograph by RicardMN Photography which was uploaded on February 13th, 2017.
Sligo Abbey Interior BW
Sligo Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Shligigh), a ruined abbey in Sligo, Ireland, (officially called the Dominican Friary of Sligo) was originally built in... more
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Sligo Abbey Interior BW
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RicardMN Photography
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Sligo Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Shligigh), a ruined abbey in Sligo, Ireland, (officially called the Dominican Friary of Sligo) was originally built in 1253 by the order of Maurice Fitzgerald, Baron of Offaly. It was destroyed in 1414 by a fire, ravaged during the Nine Years' War in 1595 and once more in 1641 during the Ulster Uprising. The friars moved out in the 18th century, but Lord Palmerston restored the Abbey in the 1850s.
Known locally as the Abbey, the site contains a great wealth of carvings including Gothic and Renaissance tomb sculpture, well preserved cloister and the only sculptured 15th century high altar to survive in any Irish monastic church.
It appears in two short stories by William Butler Yeats: "The Crucifixion of the Outcast", set in the Middle Ages, and "The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows" describing its destruction in 1641.
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