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Eyrecourt · County Galway

Guides to Eyrecourt

3 articles, each about one thing people ask: a station, a square, a beach, a festival, a castle. Every one is written from a named source in this site’s own words, and every place it mentions is pinned on the model.

07 Clonfert Cathedral
Cathedral
Clonfert Cathedral

Clonfert Cathedral, on the site of the monastery St Brendan founded in 563 and where he was buried, is the small 12th-century church whose…

Heritage
Meelick

Meelick, Míleac, on the Shannon 4 km south-east of Eyrecourt, has by local account the oldest Catholic church in continuous use in Ireland, the…

Saint
St Brendan the Navigator

Brendan of Clonfert, born in Tralee about 484 and died about 577, one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland, is patron of the dioceses of Clonfert and…