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Extract from the Loughrea Travel Guides:
LOUGHREA
, on the main road to Ballinasloe and ten miles southeast of Athenry, is like Portumna in that it's a lakeside market town. But it's much smaller, and tiny Lough Rea can't compare with the beauty of Lough Derg for a setting. In the thirteenth century, Richard de Burgo founded a
Carmelite monastery
here, and it still stands in an excellent state of preservation. The town also has a late nineteenth-century
cathedral
, whose interior demonstrates the development of the modern Dublin School of Stained Glass - an acquired taste. Much earlier religious art is on display next door in the
Lough...
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