Qualla: Attymass https://qualla.com/attymass en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/e/attymass-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Attymass https://qualla.com/attymass Attymass: Introduction https://qualla.com/attymass/ Photo credit CeltBrowne, CC BY-SA 4.0. If you walk through Battery Park City in lower Manhattan, you'll come to the Irish Hunger Memorial - a slanted hillside of Irish stones, flora and an authentic stone cottage transported across the Atlantic. The cottage belonged to the Slack family of Carradoogan in Attymass, County Mayo. It was deserted in the 1960s, like so many small Irish farms whose people had emigrated, and stood empty until it was carefully dismantled and shipped to New York to anchor the memorial that opened in lower Manhattan in 2002. The cottage that gives the memorial its emotional centre comes from a Mayo village most Americans will never visit - a place whose other great export is also a man, born here in 1909, who built a global Catholic devotional movement out of one repeated prayer.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/e/attymass-wp/gc9e-attymass-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Attymass: Ringforts and Crannogs https://qualla.com/attymass/ Photo credit Newbert12, CC BY-SA 4.0. Evidence of ancient settlement in the Attymass area runs deep. Ringforts in the townlands of Carrick and Kilgellia mark out the circular earthen homesteads of Iron Age and early medieval farmers. Crannog sites at nearby Ballymore Lough - artificial islands built up in the shallow...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/e/attymass-wp/gc9e-attymass-ringforts-and-crannogs.mp3 0:06 2 full Attymass: Father Peyton, the Rosary Priest https://qualla.com/attymass/ Photo credit Liz McCabe, CC BY-SA 2.0. Patrick Peyton was born in Attymass in 1909. He went on to become a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross in the United States and to found the Family Rosary Crusade, an international movement built around the conviction that the family rosary - the entire household praying to...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/e/attymass-wp/gc9e-attymass-father-peyton-the-rosary-priest.mp3 0:06 3 full Attymass: The Cottage in Manhattan https://qualla.com/attymass/ Photo credit CeltBrowne, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Irish Hunger Memorial opened in Battery Park City in lower Manhattan in 2002. Its designers wanted a material connection to the Famine - not just a symbolic monument but actual Irish stones and an actual abandoned cottage shipped from the depopulated west of Ireland. The Slac...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/e/attymass-wp/gc9e-attymass-the-cottage-in-manhattan.mp3 0:06 4 full Attymass: Moy Villa on Astro Turf https://qualla.com/attymass/ Photo credit CeltBrowne, CC BY-SA 4.0. On a more immediate scale, the modern life of Attymass turns largely around its football club. Moy Villa Football Club, established in 1992 and based in Kilgellia, plays in the Mayo League and was promoted to Premier A in September 2012. In late 2013, the club reached the Elvery'...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/e/attymass-wp/gc9e-attymass-moy-villa-on-astro-turf.mp3 0:06 5 full Attymass: What Stays, What Leaves https://qualla.com/attymass/ Photo credit CeltBrowne, CC BY-SA 4.0. Attymass is a small place, by every measure. Its population is modest. Its commercial centre is a few buildings. Its physical features are subtle - a few low hills, a few small lakes, the quiet pastures of north Mayo running away to the larger lakes of Conn and Cullin and eventua...

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