Ireland’s smallest chapel

Costello Memorial Chapel, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim, was built by local trader Edward Costello, on the death of his wife Mary, in 1877. Her body was embalmed and left with a local nunnery for safekeeping until the chapel was completed in 1879, when she was interred there. When Edward died in 1891 his body was also buried there and both coffins are visible through thick glass, positioned either side of the aisle which leads to the small marble altar. The church is 16ft in length and 12 ft wide, making it Ireland’s smallest chapel and the second smallest in the world.