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Mayo North Heritage Centre
Castlehill
Ballina
Co Mayo
353 (0)96 31809
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The Mayo North Heritage Centre is the place to go for anyone looking to trace their family history in County Mayo. Its databank provides access to records held in church registers, school records, leases, and wills.
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Ballintubber Abbey
Ballintubber
Near Claremorris
Co Mayo
353 (0)94 9030934
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Founded in 1216 by the King of Connacht, Ballintubber Abbey is the church that ‘refused to die’. Throughout its turbulent history attempts have been made to suppress Catholic worship at the site, but managed to survive and is today the only royal Abbey in Ireland which has been in continuous use for 800 years.
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Céide Fields
Ballycastle
Co Mayo
353 (0)96 43325
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One of the most significant Stone Age settlements in the world is to be found at Céide Fields in Ballycastle. Visitors can see the stone-walled fields, megalithic tombs and even the foundations of a village. The visitors centre, meanwhile, explaisn the site through the use of interactive displays, films, and tours.
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Foxford Woollen Mills
Foxford
Co Mayo
353 (0)94 56756
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Foxford Woollen Mills has rapidly become one of Ireland’s premier visitor attractions since opening in 1992. A tour of the mill takes visitors back in time to life in Foxford in the 1890s, with a visit to today’s working mill to see how the world famous blankets, rugs and tweeds continue to be made to this day.
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Knock Shrine
Knock
Co Mayo
353 (0)94 88100
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Knock Shrine is one of the most visited sites in Ireland, attracting more than 1.5 million visitors a year. On August 21st 1879 15 people claimed to have seen an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Joseph and St. John. Ever since it has been a place of pilgrimage for people from all over the world, with even Pope John Paul II himself having visited the site.
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Granuaile Centre
Louisburgh
Co Mayo
353 (0)98/66341
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The Granuaile Centre details the life of Grace O'Malley, known as the Pirate Queen. Living between 1530 and 1600, the centre provides an audio-visual presentation on her daring exploits and battles against the English. The centre also contains an exhibition on the Great Famine, during which Mayo lost over 100,000 of its population to emigration and death.
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Croagh Patrick
Nr Westport
Co Mayo
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The pyramid mountain of Croagh Patrick is believed to be the site from which St Patrick banished all snakes from Ireland, one of the key moment in Irish Christian folklore and is, as a result, a site of pilgrimage for people from all over the country.
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Westport House
Westport
Co Mayo
353 (0)98-27766
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Westport House is a magnificent early 18th century Georgian mansion set amidst beautiful parklands overlooking Clew Bay. Several rooms are open to the public, with artworks by James Arthur O’Connor, Chalon, Beechy, Barrett, Lavery, Gibson and Carver on display.
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