Welcome to Killasser Parish Community

Killasser is a rural parish situated north-west of Swinford, County Mayo, in the West of Ireland. It stretches from the County Sligo border on the north and east to the River Moy on the south and from the parishes of Attymass and Toomore (Foxford) on the west to the parish of Charlestown on the south-east.

The place-name Killasser is ecclesiastical in origin, an Anglicised version of the Irish, Cill Lasrach, which means ‘the church of Lasair’. Cill Lasrach got the name from an eighth century Fermanagh woman, Saint Lasair, whose name is preserved in her native district of Killesher (Cill Laisre) near Lough Macnean in the south-west of the county.