Attymass

Attymass

*Áth Tí an Mheasaigh*
Attymass Áth Tí an Mheasaigh
Village
	Ballymore Lough lies immediately north of Attymass
	Attymass Location in Ireland
	Coordinates: 54°03′N 9°05′W / 54.050°N 9.083°W
Country	Ireland
Province	Connacht
County	County Mayo
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))

Attymass (Irish: Áth Tí an Mheasaigh)^[1] is a village and civil parish in County Mayo, Ireland.

History

Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of ringforts (in the townlands of Carrick and Kilgellia) and several crannóg sites at nearby Ballymore Lough.^[2]

The Roman Catholic church in the village was built in 1958 on the site of an earlier 19th century chapel.^[3]

The Fr Patrick Peyton Memorial Centre, which was officially opened in 1998,^[4] commemorates the village's association with Fr Patrick Peyton.^[5] Peyton, also known as the "Rosary Priest", was the founder of the Family Rosary Crusade and was born in the area in 1909.^[6]

The Irish Hunger Memorial in New York City features a stone cottage that originally belonged to the Slack family of Carradoogan in Attymas, before eventually being deserted in the 1960s.^[7]

Sport

Moy Villa Football Club, established in 1992, is based in Kilgellia, Attymass and plays in the Mayo League.^{[citation needed]} In September 2012, Moy Villa achieved promotion to Premier A of the Mayo League.^{[citation needed]} In late 2013, Moy Villa reached the Elvery's Sports Super League for the first time in the club's history.^{[citation needed]} In 2006, the club built an Astro turf facility with floodlights, with funding being sourced locally and via the Sports Capital Development Fund.^[8]

References

^ "Áth Tí an Mheasaigh / Attymass". logainm.ie. Irish Placenames Database. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
^ "Record of Monuments and Places - County Mayo" (PDF). archaeology.ie. National Monuments and Historic Properties Service. 1996. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
^ "Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception and S, Kilgellia, Attymass, County Mayo". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
^ "Attymass website". attymass.ie. Archived from the original on 25 July 2009.
^ "Fr Patrick Peyton CSC Memorial Centre". museumsofmayo.com. Mayo Ireland Ltd. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
^ "Venerable Patrick Peyton". holycrosscongregation.org. Congregation of Holy Cross. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
^ Smith, Roberta (16 July 2002). "Critic's Notebook; A Memorial Remembers The Hungry". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
^ "Moy Villa FC website". moyvillafc.ie. Archived from the original on 26 June 2007.