GLENCORRIB
National
School
|
|
|
Co Mayo
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
GLENCORRIB
|
|
|
|
GLENCORRIB CHURCH
|
|
Immaculate Conception
|
|
|
In 1850 George Ousley Higgins, M.P. for Mayo, purchased from the Encumbered Estates Court the Glencorrib estate of Robert Dillon Browne. In 1873 he commenced the building of a church on that estate. Up until that time, Mass was celebrated in the old Franciscan church at Kilroe, which was abandoned by the Friars in 1841.
|
|
George Ousley Higgins died at his London residence on the 8th May 1874. He left his Glencorrib estate and a considerable fortune to his sister Margaret, who was a nun in the Sisters of Charity, St. Vincent's Convent, Cork. Margaret completed and paid for the church.
|
|
It was dedicated on the 8th May 1875. Fr. John Goode was the parish priest at the time. The church was extended and renovated in 1944 by Fr. H. Feeney. A bell was presented by John Harte of Mounthenry, Glencorrib and a new belfry was built in 1963 to house it.
|
|
|
A shrine to the blessed Virgin was erected to celibrate the year 2000 .
|
|
|
|
|
COMMUNITY CENTRE
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|