The Bishop of Galway Brendan Kelly will celebrate Mass tomorrow in the village of Shrule, on the border of counties Mayo and Galway, to mark one hundred years since the Columban Missionaries arrived in the village.

The Columbans opened their first seminary in Dalgan, Shrule in 1918 with an initial 19 students, and numbers grew to 200 by the time they moved in 1941 to Navan, Co Meath.

A plaque will also be erected in the Church grounds in Shrule in memory of four Columban priests and sisters from the Shrule area who served as overseas missionaries.

This is one of a number of events taking place in locations across the country to mark the centenary of the Columban Missionaries.