Killaspugbrone

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Killaspugbrone is the ruins of an ancient church with an adjoining cemetery that rests on the extremity of the headland behind the airport at Strandhill.
This church is the oldest church of the Barony of Carbury: which stretches from Sligo to Mullaghmore.
It is said the chapel was originally enclosed in a cashel.
It is likely the present ruin dates from the eleventh or twelfth centuries rather than being the ruins of the original church erected in the fifth century.
The place name Killaspugbrone is based on three Irish words; Kill from cill meaning church, aspug from easbog meaning bishop, and Brón was the name of St Patrick’s disciple.
This important Christian settlement was founded in the fifth century by St Patrick who gave the church to his disciple Bishop Bronus.
Bishop Brón was a native of the Coolera area and held a special place in the affections of St Patrick because he helped propagate the new Christian faith.