The Coming of Christianity to the Moytura and Southern Sligo Region Christianity did not enter an empty landscape. Long before the first Christian missionaries travelled through north Connacht, the country around Lough Arrow, Moytura and the Curlew Mountains already possessed…
Before Saint Patrick: Tirerrill, the Ancient Landscape and the Conmaicne World Long before Tirerrill became associated with Saint Patrick, early churches or the families that later served them, it was already an ancient and heavily marked human landscape. Its lakes,…
The Early History of the Conmaicne The Conmaicne were among the most widely dispersed and historically important population groups of early Connacht. Their name survived in several regional territories extending from the Atlantic coast of Connemara through central Galway and…