Meelick, County Mayo

Village in Connacht, Ireland

Meelick Míleac
Village
Meelick Round Tower
53°55′54″N 9°01′17″W / 53.931564°N 9.021349°W / 53.931564; -9.021349
Country	Ireland
Province	Connacht
County	County Mayo
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))

Meelick (Irish: Míleac)^[1] is a small village situated some 5 km west-southwest of Swinford in County Mayo, Ireland. It is in a civil parish of the same name.^[1]

Meelick round tower

A 21-metre high round tower next to the cemetery is the sole surviving structure of an early monastery. Restored in 1880, the tower is flat-topped, having lost its original bell-storey and cap.^{[citation needed]} It is believed to have been built at some time between 923 and 1013 AD on the site of an ecclesiastical foundation attributed to Saint Broccaidh.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "Míleac/Meelick". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Retrieved 13 October 2021.
^ "Meelick Round Tower, Swinford. County Mayo 10th century". curiousireland.ie. Retrieved 4 March 2023.