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Caltra
Sign in to saveCaltra ( or Cealtrach na Pailíse meaning "burial-ground of the palisade") is a townland and village on the R358 regional road in County Galway, Ireland. As of the 2011 census, the townland of Caltra had a population of 115 people.
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Caltra ( or Cealtrach na Pailíse meaning "burial-ground of the palisade") is a townland and village on the R358 regional road in County Galway, Ireland. As of the 2011 census, the townland of Caltra had a population of 115 people.
==History== Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of ringfort, fosse and enclosure sites in the townlands of Caltra, Lisnagree and Lislea. The Roman Catholic church in the village is dedicated to Saint Solan. It was built on the site of an earlier friary, and extended in the late 1930s by W.H. Byrne & Sons architects.
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