The Parish of Borrisokane
A warm welcome to Borrisokane Parish
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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Borrisokane Parish Tax Back scheme
- Our parish can claim tax back that you have paid on your earnings. This applies to PAYE Income and Self Employed Income, including Farmers. You must have contributed €250 or more in a year to the parish which includes all contributions to priests’ collections and parish fund.
- This is of great benefit to the Parish finances and it does not affect the tax payer at all except that it is great if some of your tax goes towards a good cause. The Parish is now looking for people to complete forms for 2023 and we can claim back to 2020.
- All you have to do is, please, sign a CHY 3 enduring cert and put in your Name and PPS No and return to the Parish Office. Forms are available in the church porches – If you feel that you have donated over €250 to the Church in 2023 and a taxpayer, please complete and return the form to the Parish. We can then submit a claim to Revenue. Call to Patricia in the parish office.
- We wish to thank those who have already signed a form.
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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)
