According to historian Hubert Thomas Knox's History of Mayo, Sir Murrogh O'Flaherty and his clansmen came to attack Edward Bermingham.

It is speculated by experts that the boat was made for ceremonial display, as it is considered too long to have been used for ordinary fishing or transport.

It is stated that seventeen poets of Ulster's brightest progeny sought learning in Ceall Cluaine, while it is also reputed that students from Scotland may have studied there.

[citation needed] Brian, Hugh and Tully Ó hUigín held three parts of Kilclooney in 1641 but their lands were granted to William Burke at the Restoration in the 1660s.

A large portion of a castle or tower house can be seen today in quite a ruinous state, while there is no evidence of the stone huts.

These races were originally held on St. Patrick's Day but were later changed to Easter Monday at the turn of the century in hope of better weather conditions.

[citation needed] Local publicans were organisers of the races and The Tuam Herald reported that "Porter ran in rivers down countless throats and corked concoctions sold by the million".

A carnival was organised in 1957 to begin on Easter Sunday and continue for two weeks in an effort to boost attendance numbers.

In April 1921, two RIC constables returning to their barracks after patrolling the railway station, were attacked by local volunteers at the egg shed.

However; it was not long before a number of armed policemen and Black and Tans rushed to the scene from the nearby police barracks and managed to retrieve the rifles.

A flying column of seven local volunteers under the command of Tom Dunleavy, lay in wait for a combined RIC and Black and Tan patrol close to Carrowreagh.

Two members of the patrol were killed, Sergeant James Murrin and Constable Edgar Day, while a policeman was wounded and a Black and Tan named Carter escaped.

Sergeant Murrin was to have retired on a pension a week earlier but due to a problem with his final documentation, he was required to remain at his post.

A petty session's clerk, James McDonagh from the Conagher townland was suspected by local Fenians to be a Police Spy.

In 1803, a thatched oblong church was built in Kilclooney measuring approximately eighty feet by twenty.

The stained glass windows in the church were designed by George Walsh and painted by William Earley.

The ladies' team have won a number of Kilmacud Crokes All-Ireland 7-Aside tournaments in both the Junior and Intermediate grades respectively.

During the Second World War, handballs became impossible to obtain and the sport began to decline, never regaining popularity.

[10] It also has a 4.5 km Slí na Sláinte rural walk, for which it won first place in County Galway in the National Tidy Town Awards for 8 years from 1996 to 2003.