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  2. Jan 14, 2025In the 4th century ce the ancient line of Connaught kings was supposedly displaced by the midland rulers, whose centre was at Tara.Two members of this Tara dynasty, Brion and Fiachra, reputedly founded septs, or clans, the Uí Briúin and the Uí Fiachrach, to which all the rulers of Connaught from the 5th to the 12th century belonged.Turloch (Toirdelbach) O'Connor (died 1156) and his son ...
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  3. 4 days agoUlster, one of the ancient provinces of Ireland and subsequently the northernmost of Ireland's four traditional provinces (the others being Leinster, Munster, and Connaught [Connacht]). Because of the Ulster cycle of Irish literature, which recounts the exploits of Cú Chulainn and many other Ulster heroes, Ulster has a place of great prominence in Irish literature.
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  4. Connemara, region of County Galway, western Ireland.It lies west of Galway city and Loughs (Lakes) Corrib and Mask. Referred to as a "savage beauty" by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, Connemara comprises ice-scoured, rock-strewn country mostly covered with peat bog. Between the city of Galway and Kilkieran Bay, more than 20 miles (30 km) to the west, the land rises gradually from the coastal ...
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  5. 2 days agoIreland is a country of western Europe occupying five-sixths of the westernmost major island of the British Isles. The country is noted for a rich heritage of culture and tradition that was linked initially to the Irish language. ... Ireland was long among Europe's poorest regions, a principal cause of mass migration from Ireland, especially ...
  6. Dec 24, 2024The descendants of the followers of the Norman Richard de Burgh, who assumed rule of Connaught in the 1230s, became known as the tribes of Galway. The county was given its shire boundaries in the reign of Elizabeth I.After 1652 the land settlement of Oliver Cromwell established a new class of landed proprietors. Area 2,354 square miles (6,098 square km), excluding Galway city. Pop. (2006 ...
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  7. Jan 13, 2025Sligo, county in the province of Connaught, northwestern Ireland.It is bounded by Counties Leitrim (east), Roscommon (southeast), and Mayo (southwest); an arm of the Atlantic Ocean forms its other borders. The town of Sligo is the county seat.. Nearly half of Sligo is rough pasture, predominantly in the mountains, hills, and peat bogs. On the east the boundary with Leitrim runs southward ...
  8. At the close of the 12th century, the territory that now constitutes County Mayo was granted by King John of England to the Norman William de Burgh, but Mayo remained loosely subject to the Gaelic overlordship of O'Donnell, chief of Tyrconnell.In the 14th century the land passed to a branch of the de Burgh family known as MacWilliam Iochtair. In 1603 Theobald Burke, of the MacWilliam ...
  9. Dec 29, 2024During the late 20th century Galway was among the fastest-growing cities in Europe. The traditionally nomadic minority indigenous to Ireland known as the Irish Travellers, some 1,500 of whom live in Galway and surrounding areas, received official recognition by the national government as an ethnic group in 2017. Pop.
  10. Dec 23, 2024Leitrim, county in the province of Connaught (Connacht), northwestern Ireland.It is bounded by Northern Ireland (east) and by Counties Donegal (north), Cavan (east), Longford (south), and Roscommon and Sligo (west). The western boundary follows the River Shannon, on which boats can ascend to Carrick-on-Shannon, the county town (seat).. The southern part of the county is a lowland covered by ...
  11. 7 days agoMost of the county lies between the River Shannon and its major tributary, the River Suck. Athlone on the Shannon is the main point of entry to the county; north of it lies Lough (Lake) Ree and, farther upstream, Loughs Bofin and Boderg. Along most of its course are extensive water meadows known as callows. Between the Shannon and the Suck the landscape is a mixture of limestone surfaces 200 ...

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