To See

Rolling Sun Spectacle

National Famine Monument

Foxford Woolen Mills

Murrisk Abbey

Ceide Fields

Mayo Abbey

Clew Bay Heritage Centre

Achill Island

Westport House

Ballintubber Abbey

Knock Shrine

Louisburgh

Town of Cong

Clare Island

Delphi and Connemara

Mayo Abbey ( Mayo of the Saxons) is a small village in Mayo situated ten miles to the south of the county town, Castlebar, and six miles to the north west of Claremorris. Mayo Abbey village today, with a population of approximately 1,200 people, gives little clue to its importance in the seventh and eight century as a major centre in the Celtic - Anglo Saxon Christian world. A monastery was founded here by St. Colman. For more than a thousand years it was the most important centre in the region becoming a Norman town and naming County Mayo, the third largest county in Ireland.