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Carnmore
Sign in to saveCarnmore () is an electoral area located at the southern end of the parish of Claregalway, approximately east of Galway city in County Galway, Ireland. Carnmore is in a Gaeltacht area, although the majority of residents use English as their first language. Incorporating the townlands of Carnmore, Carnmore West and Carnmore East, the area is represented in hurling competitions by Carnmore GAA. Galway Airport is also nearby.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Carnmore is referenced by 158 other articles, and connects out to Baile na hAbhann, Republic of Ireland and time zone.
The entry is geolocated on the map in IE, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Towns and villages in County Galway, Untranslated Irish place names and Use Hiberno-English from June 2020.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Galway West
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Galway
- Area
- 19.2563
- Elevation
- 12
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Official website
- www.carnmore.net
- Image
- Carnmore West - geograph.org.uk - 1257955 (cropped).jpg
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- historic county
- County Galway
- Irish Grid Reference
- M370324
- Commons category
- Carnmore West
- native label
- An Carn Mór
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Notable residents
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Carnmore () is an electoral area located at the southern end of the parish of Claregalway, approximately east of Galway city in County Galway, Ireland. Carnmore is in a Gaeltacht area, although the majority of residents use English as their first language. Incorporating the townlands of Carnmore, Carnmore West and Carnmore East, the area is represented in hurling competitions by Carnmore GAA. Galway Airport is also nearby.
==History== Archaeological sites in the area include a souterrain which had two or three chambers and a creep entrance to each chamber which were approximately high. There is also a lisheen, a small fort, in Carnmore where some local children (and adults) were buried. There are also several Dolmen-style (portal tomb) burial sites in the area. In Claregalway there is the Franciscan Friary, and the sites of five castles are located in the parish area: Claregalway, Cloghmoyle, Lydican, Lissarulla and Kiltrogue.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carnmore” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations