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Presbytery in the Cistercian Abbey of Corcomroe, County Galway, Ireland.
The presbytery is rib-vaulted in two bays and its construction is of a good
quality. It contains a fine sedile [plural of sedilia], together with
the effigy of king Conor na Suidane O'Brien (d. 1267), grandson of the
founder. Corcomroe is the only Irish abbey where some preparatory
drawings survive: they are to be found incised on a surface of plaster
on two walls within the church.
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