Ardrahan
Sign in to savethumb|Remains of the Ardrahan round tower Ardrahan () is a village and civil parish in County Galway, Ireland.
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Place details
- Region
- Connacht
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 540
- Timezone
- Europe/Dublin
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Ardrahan
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ga
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- 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.area_total_km2
- 9.8
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement.population_total
- 540
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.timezone1
- WET
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Galway
- Area
- 9.8
- Elevation
- 29
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Ardrahan Church - geograph.org.uk - 899634.jpg
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- Ardrahan
- different from
- Ardrahan Cheese
- Irish Grid Reference
- M461121
- historic county
- County Galway
- native label
- Ard Raithin
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thumb|Remains of the Ardrahan round tower Ardrahan () is a village and civil parish in County Galway, Ireland.
==History== Richard de Burgo conquered Galway in 1236, and granted the land to Maurice Fitzgerald who built the castle whose ruins still stand today. The churchyard wall contains the remains of a round tower, which suggests that a monastic community may have existed on the site before the castle was built.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ardrahan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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