Carracastle ()Carracastle ''Placenames Database of ireland''. Retrieved 2011-06-06. is a small, rural
Roman Catholic
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parish
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Roscommon
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and bordering
County Sligo
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in
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. It contains part of the
civil parish
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is Kilbeagh, which also contains Charlestown Catholic parish. It is roughly halfway between the Mayo town of Charlestown and the Roscommon town of
Ballaghaderreen
Ballaghaderreen () is a town in County Roscommon, Ireland. It was part of County Mayo prior to 1898. It is located just off the N5 National primary road. The population was 1,808 in the 2016 census.
History
As of 1837, the town was recorde ...
. The parish is made up of the main parish of Carracastle and the half parish of Rooskey. There is a Catholic church in each parish and a school in Carracastle (a school in Rooskey closed down in June 2009).
History
There are over twenty
ring fort
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s in Carracastle. The original church in Carracastle, on the site of the present church, was a small thatched building which also served as a school house. The church in Carracastle today was built in 1877 and it was officially opened and blessed on 21 October 1877. The altar of
Caen stone
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and marble was consecrated by Bishop McCormack on 9 June 1884. Church records for Carracastle parish begin in about 1850.