The monastery built here in the 12th century fell under the patronage of Tairrdelbach Mór Ua Conchobair, king of Connacht, who refounded it as an Augustinian Arroasian priory. He died in 1156.
His grandson Aedh, son of Ruaidri (the king who built Cong Abbey), who died in 1233 was buried here.
The ruins at this site are just two long low walls on the north-northeast (15°) and south-southwest (195°) side and a higher wall on the east-southeast (105°) side.
Against this wall there are two large stone slabs.
Stumps and fragments of what once could have been a cloister are aligned all around the small burial plot among these walls. There are some nice burial markers in the graveyard.
But the most interesting things here are the cross slabs, a stone decorated with a menora, fragments of bullaun stones, millstones and stone gutters set into the boundary wall of the graveyard in the west side.
Among these very interesting stones there are a carved human head and something that could look like a sheela-na-gig, but it's most likely an exhibitionist.
Other similarly carved stones are set into the northwest wall.
We were here only to see the ruins of the church, these stones in the boundary walls were a very nice surprise!
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