churches historical leitrim

Drumsna's Catholic Church (1845) is situated in the village. A memorial just beyond the church is dedicated to Robert Strawbridge who was born in Drumsna in 1732. He founded the Methodist Church in the USA and died in Baltimore, Maryland in 1781. A small cemetery close by is the burial place of Surgeon Thomas Parke, who accompanied Henry Morton Stanley on his celebrated expedition to the African Congo.

Anthony Trollope, the English novelist lived here for a time when he worked with...

Occupying the site of an earlier built by St Mogue in the 7th century, the earliest surviving feature is a 13th century east window. Just inside the gate is a graveslab with a carved cross, which dates from the 9th century....

A church, built around 1200, which served as an auxiliary to the Augustinian Priory of Mohill. The church has simple but attractive east and south lancet windows. The moulding on the outside of the east window ends with two upturned heads.

The plain north doorway was inserted in the 15th century. Beside the entrance to the graveyard an Ogham stone has been re-erected - it is the only one in Co. Leitrim. All that can be read of the inscription is the name of the person commemorate...

Two churches stand on the site of an earlier monastery. The south church has a fine pointed west doorway and a beautiful 14th or 15th century east window. Note the string course with rolled moulding beneath the outside of the window. The north church was probably built in the 15th century, but replaces and partly uses the stones of a pre-Norman church. Both churches have the western part roofed with a vault, above which was a gallery.

Other buildings and various earthworks are pr...

This chapel, the smallest in Ireland and probably the second smallest in the world, is wonderful example of one man's true love for his wife. It was commissioned by Edward Costello in the memory of his wife Mary Josephine Costello after she died at the age of 47 on 6th of October 1877.

On April 22nd 1879 the Chapel was dedicated, Requiem Mass was offered and Mary Josephine's remains were interred in a sunken place to the left of the entrance Edward Costello died at the age of 68 o...