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Ardagh (Ard Muca) is a parish and village in North Mayo, located slightly to the south of Ballina, at Latitude: 54° 5' 52 N, Longitude: 9° 13' 32 W.
Map of Ardagh, Co. Mayo, Ireland
The parish takes its name from an ancient ecclesiastical site, which was either a Church or a small monastery, and is derived from "Ard Achadh", which means high ground. The earliest record of the first church in Ardagh is in a 1198 epistle issued by Pope Innocent 3rd.
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Ardagh, County Mayo Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA