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Meelick, County Mayo

town in Connacht, Ireland

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ3775961 ↗
Source-derived summary

Meelick (Irish: Míleac) 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.

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. It is believed to have been built at some time between AD 923 and 1013 on the site of an ecclesiastical foundation attributed to Saint Broccaidh.

Editorial summary

“Meelick, County Mayo” enters the record as town in Connacht, Ireland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Meelick, County and Mayo can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1880, 1013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Meelick, County and Mayo.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Meelick, County Mayo” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Meelick, County and Mayo provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3775961. VIAF identifies the subject as 137343437. The Library of Congress control number is n91094406. Authority coordinates are 53.922, -9.020. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1880 and 1013.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Meelick, County Mayo”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Meelick, County Mayo primary sources, Meelick, County Mayo archive and Meelick research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Meelick, County Mayo”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Meelick, County Mayo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.