St. Mary's Catholic Church
Location 5
The Church here is the Roman Catholic Church, The inside of this church as it was in 1951 was used in the film. It was then in the shape of a cross with a renowned Harry Clarke stained glass window over the main alter. When Ford found out how famous the stained glass window was he had the camera crew slow down the scene when John Wayne walks back down the aisle that's why his walk looks very peculiar in the film. But the window as been moved since the film was made as you can see from this picture, there is now a cross behind the alter and the window is on the right.
Cong Abbey
Cong Abbey located here is a twelve century Augustinian Abbey. But it is not the location for the courting scene in the graveyard. That scene was a combination of shots in America and filming at Ross Errilly Abbey in Headford, County Galway. Just after the river fight scene where Sean knocks Danagher into the river Cong and after Sean hauls him out of the river and gets a blow from Danagher they go by the side of this Abbey.