Almost fifteen centuries of Christian worship at Moygownagh
St Cormac’s Catholic Church, Moygownagh
St Cormac’s Catholic church, situated in Moygownagh village was built during the Great Famine, and dedicated in 1846. It has recently been extensively renovated and beautifully restored by the parishioners and extensive Moygownagh diaspora.
Our parish priest is Very Rev. Mattie McGrath SMA, Adm. and he may be contacted at 096-31288.
Standard times for Sunday Mass is 11am. Please see our weekly bulletin for all details and upcoming Masses.
Our Masses are also streamed online via Church TV.
Click the link below to attend. No sign-up necessary
Moygownagh Old Graveyard - Digital Survey Project
Up to the Penal Times, the local community was served by a church dedicated to our seventh-century St Daria in what is now Moygownagh Old Graveyard, but is now no longer extant. After St Daria’s monastery fell out of use, the consecrated ground continued as a graveyard for the Moygownagh community until 1983, when the new graveyard was opened, behind St Cormac’s Church, in the village.
Led by John Tierney of Eachtra.ie and HistoricGraves.com, local volunteers from the community digitally surveyed all the extant graves in their old parish graveyard in Knockaculleen townland. The result is the first digitally surveyed graveyard in County Mayo, which is now searchable via the index button below.
