Murrisk

Murrisk lies on the southern shore of Clew Bay at the foot of Croagh Patrick, the mountain long associated with pilgrimage to Saint Patrick. In the fifteenth century the O'Malleys held power in this coastal country. A grant of land by Tadhg O'Malley made possible an Augustinian friary near the shore, for which Hugh O'Malley obtained papal permission in the 1450s. Its church and buildings stood between the mountain and the sea, serving a community in a landscape shaped by both pilgrimage and the coast.