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Oranmore
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Oranmore ( or ) is a town in County Galway, Ireland, east of Galway city on an inlet of Galway Bay. At the 2022 census, Oranmore had a population of 5,819. The town is in a civil parish of the same name.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Oranmore
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ga
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Oranmore Castle.jpg
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- Oranmore Castle
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- Ireland
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- right
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- Location in Ireland
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- Country
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- Ireland
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- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Connacht
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- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- County Galway
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- Metric
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2022
- Settlement.population_total
- 5,819
- Settlement.population_density_km2
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Galway
- Population
- 5819
- Area
- 2.46
- Elevation
- 7
- Image
- Oranmore.jpg
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- Oranmore
- Irish Grid Reference
- M386245
- historic county
- County Galway
- native label
- Órán Mór
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Pre-history
- Medieval church ruins
- Oranmore Castle
- St Mary's church
- Economy
- Transport
- Rail
- Education
- Sport
- People
- See also
- References
- External links
Oranmore ( or ) is a town in County Galway, Ireland, east of Galway city on an inlet of Galway Bay. At the 2022 census, Oranmore had a population of 5,819. The town is in a civil parish of the same name.
==Etymology== Oranmore is the anglicisation of Uarán Mór or Órán Mór. The first written record of Oranmore is in the Annals of the Four Masters. It was originally called Fuarán Mór, meaning "great spring" in Irish. This name reputedly refers to a spring or well near the village.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oranmore” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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