placenamesRakestreet
Sráid na Réicí
Our Lady’s Church at Rakestreet preserves a simple nineteenth-century building alongside older memorials.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Sráid na Réicí · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Rakestreet · English · main form
Place & story
A church rebuilt and improved
The Catholic church at Rakestreet, in Kilmurry More, was built in 1886, succeeding a nearby chapel dated to 1785. Its rectangular body has pointed windows and an exposed timber roof. The interior was improved in 1916 to a design by the Dublin practice William Henry Byrne and Son; subsequent alterations also changed the building. [2]
Memorials in the grounds
The adjoining graveyard contains many later eighteenth-century markers, including examples of Mayo’s churchyard sculpture. Two uniform Commonwealth war headstones commemorate John Hegarty, who died in 1944, and Royal Air Force leading aircraftman Michael James O’Boyle, who died in 1945. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Mayo
- Barony
- Tirawley
- Civil parish
- Crossmolina
- Within
- Crossmolina South
- Within
- Gortaneden
- Within
- Kilmurry More
- Coordinates
- 54.07184, -9.35627
- Logainm ID
- 114367 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rakestreet. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Catholic Church of Our Lady, Kilmurry More, Rakestreet: 31303808 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-07-01. How this page was prepared.