Errew

Village in County Mayo, Ireland

Village in Connacht, Ireland

Errew An tOireamh
Village
Knox's Folly in Errew, now restored as apartments
53°47′42″N 9°15′54″W / 53.79500°N 9.26500°W / 53.79500; -9.26500
Country	Ireland
Province	Connacht
County	County Mayo
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))

Errew (Irish: An tOireamh)^[1] is a small rural settlement, about 8 km south from the county town of Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland.

The history of Errew follows the Franciscan monastery which was established in 1879 as a boys school which closed in 1975, the church in the monastery remained open until 1981. There are 22 Brothers buried in the Monastery cemetery.^[2]

Gilla Áedha Ua Maigín, Bishop of Cork (died 1172), is noted in the Annals of the Four Masters as "of the family of Errew of Lough Con."

Errew has a national school, and as well as a number of archaeological sites, such as forts, souterrains and fairy forts.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ "An tOireamh/Errew". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Retrieved 12 October 2021.
^ "Errew Monastery ,Ballyheane Co. Mayo in the West of Ireland | mayo-ireland". www.mayo-ireland.ie. Retrieved 6 January 2021.