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Where Ireland's Last High King Created Paradise and Hollywood Found Romance

1198 witnessed Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair (Rory O'Connor), Ireland's last High King, spending his final fifteen years at Cong Abbey after his abdication, transforming the Royal Augustine monastery on the Galway-Mayo border into the spiritual epicenter of a fading Gaelic kingship wh…

Cong is a small place in County Galway. We're still writing the proper hub for it — pubs, food, walks, the things to skip — and it'll appear here when it does.