From the GENUKI online historical reference database, entry for Abington, Co. Li...

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From the GENUKI online historical reference database, entry for Abington, Co. Limerick: "This place, anciently called Wotheney or Woney, attained considerable importance at a very early period, and was celebrated for a Cistertian abbey founded, according to some, in 1189, and to others, in 1205, and provided with monks from the abbey of Savignac, in France, by Theobald FitzWalter, Lord of Carrick,and ancestor of the Butlers, Earls of Ormonde, who was interred here in 1206. To this abbey King John made extensive grants of land in the kingdom of Limerick, with the advowsons of several parishes;and the abbot sat as a spiritual peer in the Irish House of Lords." https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/irl/LIM/Abington

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