🌐 If The Past Could Talk

Achonry Heritage Trail

📍 Sligo🚶 5 stops🚶️ 11.23km⌛ ~165 min

A deconsecrated cathedral on a 6th-century monastic site, a Franciscan friary founded by the O'Hara family in 1454, and a church built almost single-handedly by its own parish priest, scattered across the rural civil parish that gave a whole diocese its name. Looking for things to do in Achonry? Start here — no car, no ticket, no booking.

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Stops on This Trail

  1. Saint Crumnathy's Cathedral, Achonry
  2. Old Church Ruins, Achonry
  3. Court Abbey (Abbey of Court), Lavagh
  4. Chaffpool House
  5. Church of the Sacred Heart, Mullinabreena

For Schools

This trail is also available as a free printable classroom worksheet or full trail booklet — no site visit required. See how Classroom Prep Mode works →