page_title: Lorrha
section_title: Ecclesiastic ruins
hierarchical_section_title: Lorrha / History / Ecclesiastic ruins
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of the remains of Lorrha Friary, Co. Tipperary, Ireland
context_page_description: Lorrha is a small village at the northern tip of County Tipperary, Ireland. It is located on a minor road between the R489 Birr to Portumna road and the N65 Nenagh to Portumna road about five kilometres east of the point where the River Shannon enters Lough Derg.
  It is also the name of atownland and a civil parish in the historical barony of Ormond Lower. The civil parish borders Portumna in County Galway and Birr in County Offaly.
context_section_description: Lorrha has a rich ecclesiastical history evidenced by the ruins within the village. Beside the Roman Catholic Church (c. 1912), at the south of the village are the remains of a Dominican Friary founded in the 13th century by Walter de Burgh, Earl of Ulster.  To the east of the village stands the Church of Ireland  on the site of St. Ruadhan's church which was built c. 1000 AD and was itself built on the site of St. Ruadhan's Abbey, founded in the 6th century. Remains of two 8th-century high crosses stand in the churchyard.  The Augustinian Abbey founded in the 12th century by the Order of Canons Regular stands nearby. The carved head over the door is thought to represent the wife of Walter De Burgh. Water for the monastic settlement was supplied from St. Ruadhan's well located south of the road that passes the present Church of Ireland cemetery.
  The Lorrha Missal, a translation of the Latin and Gaelic Missal was transcribed at Lorrha  in the 9th century. It is now commonly known as the Stowe Missal.
caption: Lorrha Friary
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