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The Irish News
THE religious order of serial paedophile Fr Brendan Smyth is quitting its Co Cavan abbey.
The Norbertine Fathers are departing Kilnacrott Abbey near Ballyjamesduff.
The five remaining priests held their last Mass at the abbey on Easter Sunday.
First put on the market in 2007, with an asking price of €3m, it was initially thought the abbey and its
44 acres would be transformed into a 60-bed residential nursing home after being reportedly sold for €900,000 in 2011.
However, that sale fell through and the property eventually sold in 2012 for €610,000 to a controversial lay religious group known as Direction For Our Times, which is run by Chicago native Kathryn Ann Clarke, otherwise known as ‘Anne a lay apostle’.
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