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Crossmolina town is divided into two almost equal sized sections by the River Deel. The parish of Crossmolina with its ancient cloisters and its old world castles, its scenes of sanctity of destruction and tragedy is an area rich in historical interest. In the dim past when Crossmolina was part of lorrus - Domann inhabited by the fir-boigs, the earliest known settlers of Moyleog (or Moylaw) were the Calry sept of the Fir-Domann. When Fiachra folt-snatnach assumed rule this territory had vastly diminished and came to be known as Hy-Fiachrach,
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ERREW HOTEL
Errew Hotel, built in the 19th century by a man called Greville Knox. It was his private house; it was built with freestone on the inside and cut lime stone on the outside. This stone was brought from County Westmeath for five shillings a ton. This house was later known as Knox's folly because after he had built it he could not afford to live in it. It cost £2,000 at that time to build.The nuns came in 1912 and left in 1916.
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FOUNDING CROSSMOLINA
The abbey of Crossmolina was founded probably by a member of the De Barry family who owned some land about this place but almost nothing remains of this foundation today. In 1306 three Normans were indicted for robbing the abbot, an incident which must have undermined the clergy's confidence in Norman protection. During the fifteenth century, Crossmolina passed into Bourke hands but in 1526 O'Donnell of Tirconnell (present day Co. Donegal) marched into Tirawley and demolished Crossmolina castle.
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Errew Abbey is situated at the extreme end of Errew on a peninsula stretching from the barony of Tirawley into Loch Conn. Bishop McDonnells book tells us that it had been a house of some stature among the native monasteries having been founded by St Tiernan about the 7th century. Laoighaire is on record as being the bishop of Loch Conn. Joseph of Loch Conn became Abbot of Clonmacnoise in 889.
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History
