Ardagh, County Mayo
Civil parish and townland in County Mayo, Ireland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the village in County Mayo. For other uses, see Ardagh.
Ardagh (Irish: Ardach)[1] is a civil parish and townland in County Mayo, located slightly to the southwest of Ballina.[2][3][4]
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The parish takes its name from an ancient ecclesiastical site, which was either a church or a small monastery, and is derived from "Ard Achadh", which means high ground.[2] The earliest record of the first church in Ardagh is in an 1198 epistle issued by Pope Innocent 3rd.[5] The parish contains two castles: Deel Castle and Rappa Castle. There is also a community centre, a Gaelic football pitch, three national schools, and a local pub, Mickey O'Boyles (The Halfway House).[citation needed]