Castlebar

In August 1798 a French expeditionary force and Irish rebels routed a much larger government army here so completely that the retreat is still called the Races of Castlebar. A short-lived Republic of Connacht was declared in the town. The Land League was founded in Castlebar in 1879.

• Ballintubber Abbey · Founded by a king of Connacht in 1216, Mass has been said here every week since — roofless for 250 years through Cromwell and the Penal Laws, never abandoned.

All of these are pinned on the Hidden Ireland map.