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The Costello Chapel is a very small Catholic chapel located in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim, Ireland. It was built for Edward Costello in 1879, in memory of his wife, Mary Josephine, who alongside her husband is buried in the chapel. Measuring 16 foot by 12 foot, [1] it is thought to be one of the world's smallest churches. [2] [3]
The church had been identified as a likely place for volunteers of the IRA's South Leitrim Brigade to attend. Father Edward O’Reilly (the church's curate) was openly friendly towards the volunteers. After they searched the church interior, the police and soldiers remounted their lorries and continued back to Carrick-on-Shannon. [6]
Carrick-on-Shannon is situated on a fording point of the Shannon. In the vicinity of Drumsna, on the County Roscommon border, are the remains of an Iron Age fortification. . Corryolus townland on the Shannon (Irish: Coraidh-Eoluis, meaning 'weir of Eolais') remembers Eolais Mac Biobhsach, ancestor of the Muintir Eolais who were the most famous ancient Leitrim sub-septs in the Barony of Mohill ...
The county town is Carrick-on-Shannon (population 4,062). [18] It is a highly developed, prospering river port on the River Shannon and many tourists hire cruising boats here to explore the Shannon and the Shannon–Erne Waterway, which is a 63 km canal linking the two river systems. It is amongst the fastest growing towns in Ireland and has ...
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.
The site of the church is now occupied by a Church of Ireland church and graveyard. Ownership of the town passed to the Crofton family during the plantations and areas around the town were owned by the Clements family (Lord Leitrim), [ 8 ] who built the nearby Lough Rynn estate and was also the owner of what is now Áras an Uachtaráin ...
Bornacoola (Irish: Barr na Cúile, meaning 'the top of the corner') is an ecclesiastical parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise, Ireland.It is located at the southern extremity of County Leitrim in the civil parish of Mohill. [1]
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