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St. Mary's Church of Ireland church is situated on an elevated site within Athlone's former town walls. The boundary walls of the site, which has been occupied by a church since at least the 1620s, may contain fabric from the 17th-century town walls. [2] The present church was constructed c. 1827 beside the belfry of an earlier church. [2]
St. Marys is a civil parish in County Westmeath, Ireland. It is located about 40 km (25 mi) west–south–west of Mullingar. St. Mary's is the sole civil parish in the barony of Brawny in the province of Leinster. The civil parish covers 12,069.4 acres (48.843 km 2).
St. Mary's Church (Roman Catholic) in Athlone. With the two counties divided by the river, the part of the town that lies east of the Shannon is in the province of Leinster, the county of Westmeath, the barony of Brawny, and the civil parish of St Mary's. [12] Unusually, the barony is coterminous with a single civil parish.
On Christmas Day 2009, St Mel's cathedral in Longford was destroyed by fire. Bishop O'Reilly said that the building is "just a shell" and "burned out from end to end". The bishop said construction on the cathedral began in 1840 and he described it as a flagship Cathedrals of the midlands.
Peter & Paul, Athlone, Drum and Clonown The Church of Saints Peter and Paul is a Roman Catholic parish church situated in the town of Athlone , County Westmeath in Ireland. [ 2 ]
The See dates to the earliest days of the Irish Church. From the time Christianity first arrived in Ireland in the second half of the 5th century (in the form of Saint Patrick's mission), the early church was centred on Monastic settlements. St. Patrick founded such a settlement in an area known as Corcoghlan, now known as Elphin, in 434 or 435.
Garrycastle is a townland in Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland. [1] It is in the civil parish of St. Mary's. [2]The townland stands in east side of the Athlone town, and contains a section of the M6 motorway.
St. Mary's Church, St. Mary the Virgin's Church, St. Mary Church, Saint Mary Church, or other variations on the name, is a commonly used name for specific churches of various Christian denominations. Notable uses of the term may refer to: