Mayo, County Mayo
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| Mayo Maigh Eo |
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| Irish grid reference M263783 |
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| Province: | Connacht | |
| County: | County Mayo | |
| Elevation: | 72 m | |
| Population (2002) - Town: - Environs: |
- 426 |
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Mayo or Mayo Abbey (Irish: Maigh Eo, meaning Plain of the Yew trees) is a village in County Mayo, Ireland. Although it bears the same name as the county, it is not the county seat, which is Castlebar. Mayo Abbey is a small historic village in south Mayo approximately ten miles to the south of Castlebar and six miles north west of Claremorris.
The village was an important centre in the Celtic and Anglo-Saxon christian world in the seventh and eighth centuries. St. Colman, Bishop of Lindisfarne, founded a monastery here for a group of Saxon monks in the 670s. For more than a thousand years it remained the most important centre in the region becoming in turn a diocese and a Norman town and giving its name to the county.
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