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The parish of Oughterard was eventually united with Lyons in 1541. The calendar rolls reference 1609, which led to its mistakenly being cited as a foundation date by Walter Fitzgerald in 1898. This was followed by another which described the church as being "in ruins" by 1620. It is not clear when the church fell into disuse.
Drumcliffe (Ennis) Parish: St Columba, Drumcliffe • Kilfarboy • St Fachan's, Kilfenora • St James', Kilfieragh • Kilnasoolagh. Galway Parish: St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church, Galway • Kilcummin Church, Oughterard. Kenmare Parish: St Patrick's, Kenmare • Church of the Transfiguration, Sneem • St. Michael and All Angels, Waterville ...
Oughterard (Irish: Uachtar Ard) [2] is a small town on the banks of the Owenriff River close to the western shore of Lough Corrib in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. It is located about 26 km (16 mi) northwest of Galway on the N59 road .
Civil parishes in Ireland are based on the medieval Christian parishes, adapted by the English administration and by the Church of Ireland. [1] The parishes, their division into townlands and their grouping into baronies, were recorded in the Down Survey undertaken in 1656-58 by surveyors under William Petty.
Castlewarden (c1200) church has disappeared. Reeves Castle, on the Celbridge road, was built in the 14th century. [22] A mass house built below Oughter Ard hill in 1714 became the site of the first modern Catholic church in 1810 and a school in 1839. Lyons parish was united with Oughterard in 1541 and with Kill in 1693. [23]
Nevertheless, the College opened on 30 October 1849. But Kirwan's precarious health worsened, and he died on 24 December 1849. He was buried in the parish church of Oughterard. A portrait of Kirwan hangs in the board-room of the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Joseph William Kirwan (1796 – 24 December 1849) was an Irish clergyman and educationalist, who served as the first president of Queen's College Galway.. Kirwan was born in Galway in 1796.
Pre-existing parish church/chapel at the site, built after 1812. Monastery and school founded in 1824 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers . Residence at the site completed by May 1827.