The Parish of Borrisokane
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Our site is intended to be a source of information about the Parish of Borrisokane for locals and visitors alike. We hope that you may find these pages informative and supportive. We welcome your suggestions.
Parish Mass Times
Weekday Masses Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 10am, except for days with a funeral mass.
Sts Peter & Paul Church, Borrisokane:
Saturday at 7pm
Sunday at 10:30am, except for the first Sunday of each month when it will be at Aglish
St Michael the Archangel, Aglish:
Sunday at 10:30am, only on the first Sunday of each month
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FAMILY MASSES AND SACRAMENTAL DATES FOR COIS DEIRGE PASTORAL AREA 2024/2025
Enrolment for Holy Communion and Confirmation
Saturday 28thSept.7pm Borrisokane (Toh)
Saturday 5th Oct. 6.30 Lorrha (MC)
Saturday 5th Oct. 8pm Kilbarron (MC)
Please note
All families and children are welcome to our family Masses and Special Celebrations
We remember our loved ones
Saturday 9th Nov 7pm in Borrisokane
Saturday 9th Nov. 7.30pm Terryglass
Sunday 10th Nov. 11.30am Rathcabbin
Bereavement Masses
Borrisokane Thur 14th Nov 7:30pm (Toh)
Lorrha Saturday 16th Nov 6:30pm (MC)
Terryglass Saturday 16th Nov 7:30pm (MC)
“Fanning the Flame”- Special Ritual
Borrisokane Sat.30th Nov. 7pm
Rathcabbin Sunday 1st Dec.11.30am Kilbarron Sunday 1st Dec. 9.30am
Christmas Masses 2024
Christmas Eve 2pm Aglish
Christmas Eve. 7pm Borrisokane
Christmas Day 10.30am Borrisokane
Christmas Eve 9pm Lorrha
Christmas Day 11am Rathcabbin
Christmas Eve 8.30pm Terryglass
Christmas Day 9.30am Terryglass
Christmas Eve. 6.30pm Kilbarron
World Day of Prayer for the Sick
Sat. 1st Feb. 7pm Borrisokane
Sat. 1st Feb. 6.30pm Lorrha
Sun. 2nd Feb. 11.30am Rathcabbin
Sat. 1st Feb.8pm Terryglass
Sun. 2nd Feb 9.30am Kilbarron
First confession 2025
Friday 28th February 7pm Borrisokane
Thursday 13th February 7pm Redwood
Thursday 27th February 7pm Terryglass
First Sunday of Lent
Sun 9th March 10.30am
Borrisokane Sunday 9th March. 11:30am Rathcabbin Sat. 8th March.
Kilbarron
Confirmation Retreat Tue 1st April 2025.
Holy Week & Easter Sunday
Children TO BE involved
HOLY THURSDAY 17th April in Terryglass
EASTER SUNDAY 20th Apr 10.30am Mass Borrisokane (Toh)
EASTER SUNDAY 20th Apr 11.30am Mass Rathcabbin
Parents Volunteering During the Year
- We invite parents to help us with these special Masses with children
- Please keep each other informed with a parish WhatsApp group
- Fr Tom 087-7460444 (Toh)
- Fr Michael 0876548331(MC)
Preparing for Sacraments Cois Deirge
Pastoral Area 2024/25
BORRISOKANE / AGLISH
LORRHA/RATHCABBIN/REDWOOD
TERRYGLASS / KILBARRON
First Holy Communion 2025
Sunday 18th May Borrisokane 10:30am
Sunday 11th May Rathcabbin 11am
Sunday 25th May Terryglass 11am
Confirmation 2025
Friday 23rd May 10.30am Borrisokane
Friday 23rd May 2pm Lorrha
Sunday 8th June 11am Kilbarron with Bishop Fintan
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Borrisokane Parish- reflects the changing face of society.
As in all parishes today the change of demographics, church attendance and the current shortage of priests, Borrisokane/Aglish parish reflects the changing face and interface of society and church. For a number of years we are clustered or working pastorally in co-operation with the parishes of Terryglass and Lorrha. The pastoral area in which our parish is located is known as Cois Deirge, a reminder that our area skirts the beautiful Lough Derg on the river Shannon.
Historically, Borrisokane is the lower Ormond capital, located on the N52/N65 between Nenagh, Portumna and Birr which according to the 2011 Census had a population of 1,294, urban 964, rural 330. (2011) Today, it is a thriving lively business town serving the rural heartland and an important educational centre with a large Community College. Today’s parish is a combination of three medieval parishes: Uskane, Borrisokane and Aglish and it has churches in Aglish and Borrisokane.
Borrisokane Catholic Church is St. Peter & Paul’s, has a capacity of 800, extensive grounds with four gardens blending it with the landscaped and a large car park. It is also the through grounds to the nearby large St Peter and Paul’s Cemetery. Located on the Nenagh Rd., the church is a fine, bright, modern, welcoming, worshipping, space and treasured place of prayer at the heart of the town and community. Built and dedicated in 1973 during the pastorate of Dean Patrick Cahill, it was designed by McMahon & Hickey and Partners, and was built by Tom Hayes of Killaloe.
The style of the church is modern, beautiful and bright reflecting a church that opens out into the community. An A-Frame roofed building, simple in its style, evident in the altar, ambo. The main features are the large front window that floods light on to the sanctuary and an unusual wrought iron reredos representing the Lamb of God. It reflects the radical simplicity of style of church in post Vatican 2, council era. The previous church is located on the Birr Rd and had been the place of worship since it was built in 1837. In the current church are the statues and the bell from the old church and a stone baptismal font is located in the garden in the centre of the car park.
( The new St’s Peter & Pauls Church in 1973)
The current church in Aglish is St. Michael the Archangel, built in 1893, with a capacity of 200, located, right of Fortmoy Cross on the Athlone Rd. Designed by Francis O’Connor, who had designed Tuamgraney Church built the year before and a decade earlier the St Flannan’s College Church in Ennis. His trademark was Gothic, revival style. it feels distinctively late 19th century in style and he builder was Michael Martin of Portumna. The building is cut limestone, with a four pinnacle tower and numerous stone crosses. It has several stain glass windows that to many seem to be in the Harry Clarke era style. With the near bye primary school, it remains at the heart of the community, though now having one mass a month, it will continue to be a place for baptisms, weddings and funerals for many years to come.
(St Michael the Archangel Church newly renovated in 1972)
