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Franciscan Friary:
On the seashore south of the town are the scanty remains of a Franciscan Friary founded by the first Red Hugh O'Donnell and his wife Nuala O'Brien in 1474. Of the church only the chancel and a gable of the south transept remain. Better preserved are the remnants of the cloister arcade.
The English seized and fortified the Friary in 1591 but were driven out the following year by Red Hugh O'Donnell. Ten years later, the English seized it again. During a battle...

A Carmelite friary founded by MacSwiney, Lord of Fanad, in the 15th century. It consists of a nave-and-chancel church with south transept and some domestic buildings. The friars still seem to have been in occupation as late a 1595 for in that year George Og Bingham raided it and took 24 Mass Vestments, church plate and other things.

It was leased to Captain Ralph Bingley in 1602, when it consisted of one ruinous church, a steeple, a cloister, a hall, three chambers, an orchard and one...