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Abbeyknockmoy is the home of St Bernards Utd, who won the Western Hygiene Premier Division Title in 2016; the highest League honour in Galway FA Junior soccer. [9] Abbeyknockmoy was designated as a census town by the Central Statistics Office for the first time in the 2016 census, [10] at which time it had a population of 262 people. [1]
Knockmoy Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Chnoc Muaidhe), [2] also known as The Monastery of the Hill of Victory (Latin: Monasterium Collis Victoriæ); [3] and as Porta Magna (English: Great Door) [4] and Teampollandorusmoir (English: The Chapel with the Big Door) [4] after the dissolution of the monasteries, [5] is a ruined Cistercian abbey located in Abbeyknockmoy, County Galway, Ireland.
Civil parishes in Ireland are based on the medieval Christian parishes, adapted by the English administration and by the Church of Ireland. [1] The parishes, their division into townlands and their grouping into baronies, were recorded in the Down Survey undertaken in 1656–58 by surveyors under William Petty.
The Archdiocese of Tuam (/ ˈ tj uː ə m / TEW-əm; Irish: Ard-Deoise Thuama) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in western Ireland. The archdiocese is led by the Archbishop of Tuam , who serves as pastor of the mother church , the Cathedral of the Assumption and Metropolitan of the ...
Lackagh church. Lackagh (Irish: Leacach) [1] is a civil parish in County Galway, Ireland. It is approximately halfway between Galway city and Tuam (east of a line between these two towns) and bounded by the parishes of Athenry, Abbeyknockmoy, Corofin, Annaghdown and Claregalway. The River Clare runs through the centre of the parish.
Born and raised in Abbeyknockmoy, County Galway, Coleman attended St Jarlath's College in Tuam. Although regarded as a college more famous for Gaelic football, he played hurling at all levels during his schooldays. [2] [3] Coleman later studied at University College Galway and was a two-time Fitzgibbon Cup runner-up. [4]
N/E of the old church ruins lies a patch of rock with a depression known as St Patrick's footprint; close by the church is Tubernacool holy well; Slemish mountain lies two miles south-east across the river Braid valley. Schire Padruic; Shirec Archaille; rock of Skirit; Schirich: Templepatrick Preceptory ø
The Tempull Breccain (Church of Brecan), commonly called the Seven Churches of Aran, is a complex of churches and other buildings dedicated to the 5th-century Saint Brecan, once a popular destination for pilgrims. [11]