Ceathrú Thaidhg
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Ceathrú Thaidhg (anglicized as Carrowteige) is a Gaeltacht village and townland on the Dún Chaocháin peninsula in northwestern County Mayo, Ireland. It is within Kilcommon (Cill Chomáin) parish in the barony of Erris. Carrowteige is a relatively small townland with an acreage of just .
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- Instance of
- Gaeltacht
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Mayo
- Elevation
- 91
- Time zone
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Ceathrú Thaidhg (anglicized as Carrowteige) is a Gaeltacht village and townland on the Dún Chaocháin peninsula in northwestern County Mayo, Ireland. It is within Kilcommon (Cill Chomáin) parish in the barony of Erris. Carrowteige is a relatively small townland with an acreage of just .
== History == Caochán, after whom the peninsula is named, was a legendary giant of Celtic sagas who had only one eye. His image was represented on the slopes of the hills overlooking Sruwaddacon Bay when the Tír Saile was created during the 1990s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ceathrú Thaidhg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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