Great Connell Priory
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Great Connell Priory
The Augustinian Priory of St. Mary and St. David is situated on the eastern side of the River Liffey, just to the south-east of the town of Newbridge, in Co. Kildare. The Priory was founded about 1202 by the illegitimate grandson of the Angevin King Henry II Meiler fitz Henry. The Priory was a dependency of the Abbey of Llanthony. It was endowed with extensive lands in the baronies of Connell and Carbury and elsewhere in Ireland. In 1203 the last King of the Ui Faeláin, Faeláin Mac Faeláin, died as a monk there. Fitz Henry entered the Priory himself in 1216 and died there in 1220. The Priory was suppressed in 1540 and the lands granted to John Sutton.
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