Tirawley ( Irish: ''Tír Amhlaidh''`), archaically known as Tyrawley, is a

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extending southward from the north coast of

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. It was created during the

shiring Shire is a traditional term for an administrative division of land in Great Britain and some other English-speaking countries such as Australia and New Zealand. It is generally synonymous with county. It was first used in Wessex from the begin ...

of County Mayo out of the Gaelic

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or territory of

Tír Amhlaidh Tír Amhlaidh was a túath in northwest Ireland. It is now represented by the barony (Ireland), barony of Tirawley, County Mayo. The name is derived from Amalgaid mac Fiachrae, Amhalghaidh, son of Fiachrae, Fíachra son of Eochaid Mugmedon of the ...

, from which it takes its name. The title

Baron Tyrawley Baron Tyrawley was a title that was created twice, both times in the Peerage of Ireland. The first creation came in 1706 in favour of the soldier Sir Charles O'Hara. His son, James O'Hara, was a distinguished military commander. He had already b ...

was created twice, in 1706 and 1797. The nineteenth century writer

Caesar Otway Caesar Otway (1780–1842) was born at Castle Otway near Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland in 1780. He was an Irish author and clergyman who wanted to study and improve the condition of the poor. Life His parents were Cooke and Elizabeth Otway an ...

wrote 'Sketches of Erris and Tyrawley' a sometimes amusing and always interesting account of life in North Mayo just prior to the devastating

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of 1845 - 47. Downpatrick Head and the Ceide Fields are located on the north coast of the Barony. The historical town of Killala is on its east coast where it looks across the bay at

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, Co. Sligo. The barony of Tirawley includes * Ballina * Moygownagh * Killala *

Crossmolina Crossmolina is a town in the Barony of Tyrawley in County Mayo, Ireland, as well as the name of the parish in which Crossmolina is situated. The town sits on the River Deel near the northern shore of Lough Conn. Crossmolina is about west o ...

* Pontoon, County Mayo * Ceide Fields * Ballycastle * Belderrig

Annalistic references

* ''U913.6. Niall son of Aed led an expedition to Connacht and inflicted a battle-rout on the warriors of the north of Connacht, i.e. on the Uí Amalgada and the men of Umall, and they left behind a very large number either dead or captured, including Mael Cluiche son of Conchobor.'' * ''M1205.2.Donat O'Beacdha, Bishop of Tyrawley, died.'' * ''M1206.11. Rory O'Toghda, Chief of Bredagh in Hy-Awley Tirawley, died.'' * ''M1207.9. Cathal Carragh, son of Dermot, who was son of Teige O'Mulrony, took a great prey from Cormac, son of Tomaltagh Mac Dermot, and O'Flynn of the Cataract, but was overtaken by some of the Connacians, namely, Dermot, son of Manus, who was son of Murtough O'Conor; Cormac, son of Tomaltagh; Conor God O'Hara, Lord of Leyny; and Donough O'Dowda, Lord of Tirawley and Tireragh; and a battle ensued, in which Cathal Carragh was defeated. He was taken prisoner, and blinded; and his son, Maurice, with the son of Cugranna O'Flanagan, and many others, were killed (in the battle).'' * ''M1460.1. The monastery of Maighin in Tirawley, in the diocese of Killala, in Connaught, was founded by Mac William Burke, at the request of Nehemias O'Donohoe, the first Irish provincial vicar of the order of St. Francis de Observantia.'' * ''M1463.8. The son of Main Barrett, Lord of Tirawley, and Siacus Cam, the son of Farrell, Lord of the Clann-Auliffe O'Farrell, died''Annals of the Four Masters, see online at http://www.ucc.ie/celt/online/T100005D/text010.html`

References

{{EngvarB, date=November 2020 Baronies of County Mayo

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