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Carrowkeel
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Site/Artefact
Ecclesiastical Remains
Type
Augustinian Friary
Site
Number
SMR Mayo 087 031
National Grid
Reference
091950 East
282610 North
Map (
1:50000)
Ordnance Survey Ireland,
Discovery Series No 31
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Description
Carrowkeel a townland meaning the narrow
quarter has in its location a wonderful Augustinian
Friary, founded in 1457. Pope Callitus the third,
granted permission to a Hugh O'Malley, an
Augustinian friar from the house of Corpus Christi
at Banada in County Sligo, to establish the church
and friary here. The local chieftain of the area
Thady O'Malley reputedly granted the lands at
Murrisk for the church's foundation. Its not known
whether the two were related but it is curious that
both carried the same family name.
The Abbey now in ruins is L-shaped, in two parts
consisting of the church to the south and the
domestic buildings running north from the choir
wall. The east wall has a particularly fine
five-light window.
Excavation Details
N/A
Access/Ownership
Clew Bay Archaeological Trail
References
- Hughes, H. 1991, Croagh Patrick, An Ancient
Mountain Pilgrimage, Westport.
- Morahan, L. 2001, Croagh Patrick, Co. Mayo,
archaeology, landscape and people, Westport
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