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Ahascragh
Sign in to saveAhascragh () is a village in east County Galway, Ireland. It is located north-west of Ballinasloe on the Ahascragh/Bunowen River, a tributary of the River Suck. The R358 regional road passes through the village. As of the 2022 census, it had a population of 186 people. The village is in a civil parish of the same name.
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Ahascragh
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ga
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Ahascragh.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Street in Ahascragh in 2008
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- Ireland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Connacht
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- County Galway
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2022
- Settlement.population_total
- 186
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Population
- 186
- Image
- Ahascragh.JPG
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- Commons category
- Ahascragh
- Irish Grid Reference
- M775386
- historic county
- County Galway
- native label
- Áth Eascrach
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Ahascragh () is a village in east County Galway, Ireland. It is located north-west of Ballinasloe on the Ahascragh/Bunowen River, a tributary of the River Suck. The R358 regional road passes through the village. As of the 2022 census, it had a population of 186 people. The village is in a civil parish of the same name.
==History== ===Early history=== Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes ringfort, souterrain and holy well sites in the townlands of Weston, Ahascragh East and Ahascragh West.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ahascragh” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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