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Extract from the Portumna Travel Guides:
PORTUMNA
, on the north shore of Lough Derg, is a traditional market town and Shannon crossing point, happy to be cashing in on the upmarket tourism that drifts its way on the lough cruisers, yet still retaining a friendly and unpretentious character. Close to the shore stands the ruin of
Portumna Priory
, for the most part a fifteenth-century Dominican building, though its delicately arched cloisters are built around the remains of a much earlier Cistercian foundation. Nearby
Portumna Castle
(Mon-Sat 9.30am-6.30pm; 1.50/?1.90), a fine, early seventeenth-century mansion with Jacobean gables (something of...
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