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9% of the population of County Mayo live in the Gaeltacht. The Gaeltacht Irish-speaking region in County Mayo is the third-largest in Ireland with 10,886 inhabitants. These Irish-speaking areas of Mayo contain 5,956 Irish speakers. [49] Tourmakeady is the largest village in this area. All schools in the area use Irish as the language of ...
Mayo or Mayo Abbey (Irish: Maigh Eo, meaning 'plain of the yew trees') [1] is a village in County Mayo, Ireland. Although it bears the same name as the county, it is not the county seat, which is Castlebar. Mayo Abbey is a small historic village in south Mayo approximately 16 km to the south of Castlebar and 10 km north west of Claremorris.
The Mayo News was established in Westport in 1892 [1] by William and Patrick J Doris. In 1968 the paper's format changed from broadsheet to tabloid to sell better. After writing several editorials on the Corrib gas controversy during her tenure, editor Denise Horan took up a position as Shell Ireland's senior communications advisor at the end of April 2009.
Toormakeady [2] or Tourmakeady (Irish: Tuar Mhic Éadaigh, the official name) [3] [4] [5] is a Gaeltacht in south County Mayo in the west of Ireland.It is located between the shores of Lough Mask and the Partry Mountains, and covers 172.26 square kilometres (66.51 sq mi). [6]
The Corraun Peninsula, also spelt Currane (Irish:An Corrán [1]), is a peninsula in County Mayo, on the west coast of Ireland. It extends out from the mainland towards Achill Island. A road on the Corraun peninsula, near Mulranny as viewed from a bridge on the Great Western Greenway. Halloween, 2014.
A map of County Mayo, with the Mullet Peninsula marked in the top left. The Mullet Peninsula (Irish: Leithinis an Mhuirthead)—also known as the Mullet (an Mhuirthead) and sometimes as the Erris Peninsula—is a peninsula in the barony of Erris in County Mayo, Ireland. As of 2016 it has a population of 3963. [1]
Dolphin frolicking with its pod in Sruwaddacon estuary, Broadhaven Bay, Erris, County Mayo, Ireland. August 2010. Kilcommon (Irish: Cill Chomáin) is a civil parish in Erris, north County Mayo, consisting of two large peninsulas; Dún Chaocháin and Dún Chiortáin. It consists of 37 townlands, some of which are so remote that they have no ...
Sraheens (Irish: Na Sraithíní [1]) is a townland and boggy area on the island of Achill, County Mayo, Ireland, to the southwest of Achill Sound.The townland, in the southeastern part of Achill, belongs to the barony of Burrishoole in Achill Parish and has an area of 895.47 hectares (8.9547 square kilometres (3.4574 sq mi)).