Dominican Priory. The remains of the Dominican Priory founded by Donough O' Brien

There is little available information online, but the Internet Archive has the following brief passage about the Priory's founder O'Brien, digitised from The Journal of The Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, Vol. IX, Fourth series, 1889.In the year 1240, Donough Cairbreac O'Brien reigned over the little state of Thomond, and he, like his father, the great Donaldmore, King of Limerick, being an ardent churchman and founder of abbeys, determined on establishing the Franciscan monks near his palace of Clonroad, and, laying aside three years' taxes, 1 commenced a monastery of great beauty in the marshy meadows near the Fergus at a bend of the river where clustered the huts of the little village of Innis, and whence the house got its name, Manister Innsi Cluain Eamhfodha. It seems to have been completed by 1241, the year of its founder's death, but Cairbreac was laid in the Dominican Abbey which he had founded in Limerick, where his epitaph long remained. "Here lies Lord Donogh Carbreigh O'Brien, a valiant leader in arms, Prince of Thomond, made a knight by the King of England, who caused to be built the Church of the Friars of the Order of Preachers, who died on the 8 th day of the month of March, A.D. 1241, on whose soul may the Lord have mercy. Amen."http://www.archive.org/stream/journalofroyalso19royauoft/journalofroyalso19royauoft_djvu.txt