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Photo: Stephen Armstrong, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Scrappy ruin of a 12th-century church, almost engulfed by sand dunes and unsafe to enter; the cemetery remained in use to the 1960s. The name means "Church of Bishop Brón" who was a contemporary of St Patrick, indicating a church on this site since the 6th century. The beach here is called "Nun's Beach". You have to cross the airstrip to get here but that's not a problem.
Killaspugbrone is an early Christian church on the coast west of Sligo town and near the modern resort of Strandhill. Known as Caiseal Irrae in the earliest references. One of the earliest churches in Sligo, it was founded by Bishop Brón mac Icni a contemporary of St. Patrick. The church is in a townland and civil parish of the same name.
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