Excerpt from The Rise and Fall of the Irish Franciscan Monasteries: And Memoirs of the Irish Hierarchy in the Seventeenth Century I did not aim at producing a 'story 0 the Franciscan houses which formerly existed in Ireland; but the reader will find an account of the most celebrated among them as they were before the Suppression, and as Father Mooney saw them either in their incipient decline, or in their desolation. The ruins of many of those establishments still remain. Whosoever visits them, with this hook in his hand, will have {q his guide the enial old friar, who, more than two centuries ago, descri them so accurately and pathetically, and certainly in such way as none of his successors could pretend to do. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.