Kilmurray House is located
5km from Crossmolina, 1 km Rake St
pub/shop.
30 minute drive from Westport and
Castlebar.
Ballina is a 15 minute drive away.
Knock Airport 50km, Knock Shrine 50km, Sea
14km.
Ideal touring base for Mayo & Sligo. Places of interest include
Family
Heritage centre nearby. History comes alive at Céide fields,
Foxford
Woollen
Mills, National Museum of Country Life, Sandy
beaches.
Croagh Patrick - Irelands
Holy Mountain.
About Crossmolina
Crossmolina is situated on
the River Deel. A large stone bridge
was
originally built over this river,
replaced in 1893 by an iron
bridge and
this in turn by the present bridge in the
1980’s.
The town derived its name from the Irish – Cros Ui Maolfhiona –
as a
result of a
cross which was erected there in memory of
O Maolfhiona,
a member of the local
ruling family and a chieftain
of the Clann
Fiachra.
In the past when Crossmolina was part of Iorrus – Domann
inhabited
by the fir-bolgs,
the earliest known settlers of Moyleog
(or Moylaw)
were the Calry sept of the
Fir-Domann. The Kings of
Hy-Fiachrach
kept a fortress at Inniscoe and another on
Annagh
Island in Lough
Conn. One of the Fiachra sons Daithi reigned
as Ard-Ri
from 405 A.D.
to 483 A.D. His brother Amhalghaidh or
Awley became ruler of
Hy-Fiachrach Moy and this territory
became known as Tir-Awley.
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