The Barony of Tyrawley is situated in the north east portion of County Mayo. It is the area which is coloured bright green on the map to the top right.

The 19th century writer Caesar Otway

Caesar Otway

Caesar Otway was born in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland in 1780. In 1803 he married Francis Hastings with who he had five children, John Hastings Otway, Caesar George Otway, Loftus Otway, Jane Otway and Frances Otway. In 1810 he graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with holy orders...

 wrote 'Sketches of Erris and Tyrawley' a sometimes amusing and always interesting account of life in North Mayo just prior to the devastating Irish Famine of 1845 - 47.

Downpatrick Head and the Ceide Fields

Céide Fields

The Céide Fields is an archaeological site on the north Mayo coast in the west of Ireland, about 8 kilometres northwest of Ballycastle. The site is the most extensive Stone Age site in the world and contains the oldest known field systems in the world...

 are located on the north coast of the Barony. The historical town of Killala

Killala

Killala is a village in County Mayo in Ireland, north of Ballina. The railway line from Dublin to Ballina once extended to Killala. To the west of Killala is a Townsplots West , which contains numerous ancient forts.- History :...

 is on its east coast where it looks across the bay at Enniscrone, Co. Sligo.

The Barony of Tyrawley includes

• Ballina
  Ballina, County Mayo
  Ballina is a large town in north County Mayo in Ireland. It lies at the mouth of the River Moy near Killala Bay, in the Moy valley and Parish of Kilmoremoy, with the Ox Mountain range to the east and the Nephin Beg mountains to the west...
  
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• Moygownagh
  Moygownagh
  Moygownagh is a village in the Barony of Tyrawley, County Mayo, Ireland. Moygownagh borders the parishes of Kilfian, and Crossmolina.The village is on the R315 Crossmolina to Ballycastle road. A modern Community Centre, which is at the heart of the village, is located there...
  
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• Killala
  Killala
  Killala is a village in County Mayo in Ireland, north of Ballina. The railway line from Dublin to Ballina once extended to Killala. To the west of Killala is a Townsplots West , which contains numerous ancient forts.- History :...
  
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• Crossmolina
  Crossmolina
  Crossmolina or Crosmolina is a town in the Barony of Tyrawley in County Mayo, Ireland, as well as the name of the parish in which Crossmolina is situated. The town sits on the River Deel near the northern shore of Lough Conn...
  
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• Pontoon, County Mayo
  Pontoon, County Mayo
  Pontoon is a lakeside village on the R310 regional road in County Mayo in Ireland, situated between Lough Conn and Lough Cullin, and near the town of Foxford. The area is scenic and there are several hotels in the area to service the tourist industry....
  
  
• Ceide Fields
  Céide Fields
  The Céide Fields is an archaeological site on the north Mayo coast in the west of Ireland, about 8 kilometres northwest of Ballycastle. The site is the most extensive Stone Age site in the world and contains the oldest known field systems in the world...
  
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• Ballycastle
  Ballycastle, County Mayo
  Ballycastle is a village in County Mayo, Ireland, situated northwest from Ballina, near Mayo's north coast in the West of Ireland. Ballycastle is also on the edge of an Irish speaking area called a Gaeltacht....
  
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• Belderrig
  Belderrig
  Béal Deirg is a Gaeltacht village and townland in County Mayo, Ireland.-See also:* List of towns and villages in Ireland...
  
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Annalistic references

• U913.6. Niall son of Aed led an expedition to Connacht and inflicted a battle-rout on the warriors of the north of Connacht, i.e. on the Uí Amalgada and the men of Umall, and they left behind a very large number either dead or captured, including Mael Cluiche son of Conchobor.

• M1205.2.Donat O'Beacdha, Bishop of Tyrawley, died.

• M1206.11. Rory O'Toghda, Chief of Bredagh in Hy-Awley Tirawley, died.

• M1207.9. Cathal Carragh, son of Dermot, who was son of Teige O'Mulrony, took a great prey from Cormac, son of Tomaltagh Mac Dermot, and O'Flynn of the Cataract, but was overtaken by some of the Connacians, namely, Dermot, son of Manus, who was son of Murtough O'Conor; Cormac, son of Tomaltagh; Conor God O'Hara, Lord of Leyny; and Donough O'Dowda, Lord of Tirawley and Tireragh; and a battle ensued, in which Cathal Carragh was defeated. He was taken prisoner, and blinded; and his son, Maurice, with the son of Cugranna O'Flanagan, and many others, were killed (in the battle).

• M1460. The monastery of Maighin in Tirawley, in the diocese of Killala, in Connaught, was founded by Mac William Burke, at the request of Nehemias O'Donohoe, the first Irish provincial vicar of the order of St. Francis de Observantia.

• M1463.8. The son of Main Barrett, Lord of Tirawley, and Siacus Cam, the son of Farrell, Lord of the Clann-Auliffe O'Farrell, died