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Canon Island

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Domnall Mor Ua Briain gave the island to Augustinian canons in 1189, turning a remote Shannon corner into a living monastery where men prayed, worked and waited out storms. Cromewellian bombs killed several monks in 1651, breaking the rhythm that had sustained the place for centuries. Descendants still row out each July to say mass among the ruins, carrying memory across the water the way the canons once carried faith.
Canon Island is recorded as a island in County Clare. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.

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