Doora Church

Doora Church , also known as St Brecan, Doora, is a ruined church in the civil parish of Doora, County Clare, Ireland. It may date back to 500 AD, although it has been extensively reworked since then.

The church may have been founded by Saint Brecan around 500 AD.
If Brecan was the founder, as tradition states, it would have been one of the first central mission churches in Clare.
It is mentioned in 1189.
At this time the church, which is near Kilbrecan, was called Durinierekin.
Brecan also founded what is now called Carntemple about 2 miles to the east of Doora Church.
An 1842 map notes that the church was in ruins and shows it about 200 metres southwest of what was then the hamlet of Doora, which lay in the west of the townland of Ballaghboy in the parish of Doora. The church itself lies in the townland of Bunnow. It is about 300 metres east of the River Fergus, opposite the town of Ennis.

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