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Carrowkeel

Site/Artefact Murrisk Type Graveyard Site Number SMR Mayo 087 03102 National Grid Reference 091960 East 282640 North Map ( 1:50000) Ordnance Survey Ireland, Discovery Series No 31 List of Sites and Artefacts Click Here Interactive Map Click Here

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 Co. 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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• Carrowkeel Ecclesiastical Remains

Mayo Sites and Artefacts

1. Mayo Abbey 2. Balla 3. Ballintubber Abbey 4. Tóchar Phadraig 5. Aghagower 6. Lankhill 7. Boheh 8. Croagh Patrick Summit 9. Carrownalurgan 10. Ardoley 11. Kiladangan 12. Glaspatrick 13. Shrawee 14. Clare Island - Strake 15. Clare Island - Lecarrow 16. Caher Island 17. Durless

18. Carrowmore 19. Knappaghmanagh 20. Cushalogurt 21. Carrowkeel Ecclesiastical Remains 22. Thornhill 23. Carrowkeel Murrisk 24. Carrowkeel Cahernaran 25. Carrowmacloughlin Cairn-1 26. Carrowmacloughlin Cairn-2 27. Carrowmacloughlin Cairn-3 28. Carrowmacloughlin/ Glencally/ Teevenacroaghy 29. Carrowmacloughlin Sweathouses 30. Glaspatrick Holy Well

31. Glaspatrick Rath-1 32. Glaspatrick Early Ecclesiastical Remains 33. Glaspatrick Ringfort 34. Glaspatrick Rath-2 35. Glaspatrick Ecclesiatical Remains 36. Glaspatrick Altar 38. Glaspatrick Graveyard 39. Murrisk Demesne Standing Stone-1 40. Murrisk Demesne Standing Stone-2 41. Murrisk Demesne Standing Stone-3 42. Teevenacroaghy

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