The main source of material on Archdeacon Cavanagh is the excellent book titled
“Venerable Archdeacon Cavanagh” by Liam Ua Cadhain (District Court Judge Liam Coyne).

This book is available from Knock Shrine Bookshop and can also be obtained online.  The
Knock Shrine Museum is well worth a visit and it contains lots of material about Archdeacon Cavanagh and extracts of the Diary of Cures.   The Chapel in St Mary’s Hostel, directly across the road from Knock Shrine is also accessible.   This Chapel is the room where Archdeacon Cavanagh died, it was subsequently turned into a Chapel.   The site where the Archdeacon’s cottage was located is directly beside the Thatch Public House, just off the Main Street in the village.

The cottage foundations are still preserved with a small statue of the Archdeacon on the site which was unveiled in 1997, on the hundredth anniversary of his death.   A visit to the Parish Church (the apparition took place at its gable) is also worth a visit.   Archdeacon Cavanagh is buried on the top right-hand side under the flagstones close to Our Lady’s Altar.  There is a marble memorial tablet to his memory on the Wall on the top right-hand side in Latin commemorating this saintly pastor of souls.   Translated it reads:

“Pray for the Soul of the Venerable Bartholomew Cavanagh, Archdeacon of the Chapter of Tuam, and Parish of Knock-Aghamore, whose fame, on account of the extraordinary sanctity of his life, and his devotion to the Mother of God, was diffused far and wide. Unwearying in the confessional, assiduous in works of piety, he died, full of years and merit December 8th 1897.  A grateful parish erected this memorial to a venerated pastor”