by designwest_a | Dec 4, 2016 | History
Musuem The history of our Museum in Kiltimagh is inextricably bound up with the change in the town’s fortunes. For generations Kiltimagh was associated with poverty and depression. With no employment locally family ties were ruptured as our young people...
by designwest_a | Dec 1, 2016 | History, The 1916 Rising / Commemoration
1916 Rising… The Easter Rising(Irish:Éirí Amach na Cásca), also known as The Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week, April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans to end British rule in Ireland and establish an...
by designwest_a | Nov 25, 2016 | History
The Church. The original name of the Parish is Killedan which comes from the Irish Cill Liodáin, ‘the Church of Liodáin’. Killedan Church which was a Franciscan foundation would have been the centre of Christianity in this part of Co. Mayo from the 12th to the...
by designwest_a | Nov 25, 2016 | History
Fire Tragedy I suppose you could say that my association with fire fighting in Kiltimagh began when I wasn’t yet two years of age. You see I was, as my late mother always told me, born on the same day as Patrick Ruane, the youngest child of the Ruane...
by designwest_a | Nov 25, 2016 | History
StLouis Secondary School Kiltimagh. In September, 1897, six Sisters of the St. Louis Order, arrived from their Convent in Monaghan to Kiltimagh, on the invitation of the Parish Priest Fr. Denis O’Hara. They set up a technical school for the children of...
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