According to the web site, Megalithic Ireland, it was a Benedictine Abbey originally founded in 1266. Legend has it that David McCarville, the Archbishop of Cashel, had a dream that they were going to kill him, so he expelled the Benedictine Order and gave it to the Cistercian Monks. He also endowed the Abbey with lands and mills and other things belonging to the town causing local resentment of the Cistercian Abbey.
We did not tour it, and you can see that it is surrounded by fields of sheep and cattle. It is free to tour.
This was a lovely view and the large brown animal in the filed is a bull. I would pass on touring the Abbey unless I was certain the bull was in a different field!
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