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Doughiska (Irish: Dabhach Uisce, meaning 'water basin') [1] is a townland and suburb of Galway City in County Galway, Ireland. [2] There has been continuous urban development between Doughiska and the city centre due to the growth of Galway City in the early 21st century.
Charlie Byrne's is a bookshop located in the Cornstore Mall on Middle Street in Galway, close to Shop Street and the Augustinian Church. As of 2019, it reportedly contained more than 100,000 new and used books. [1]
Galway Wind Park is one of Ireland's largest onshore wind farms. [1] Located in Connemara's Cloosh Valley west of Moycullen , County Galway . The wind park was co-developed by SSE Renewables and Coillte at a cost of €280 million and consists of 58 Siemens 3 MW SWT-3.0-101 wind turbines . [ 2 ]
Ireland portal; This is a sortable table of the approximately 4,556 townlands in County Galway, Ireland. [1] [2]It does not show townlands in the Civil Parish of Inishbofin that were transferred to Galway from Mayo in 1873 or a few townlands transferred into Galway in 1899 to complete the Ballinsloe Town boundary.
In the 18th century the Eyre family of Eyrecourt, County Galway, created an extension of the quays called The Long Walk and created the arches to allow access from the town to the new quays. The designation "Spanish" is not historical to this period and was likely known as the Eyre Arch when built.
The village of Salthill, which was known as "Salt Hill" until 1819, [3] was originally a separate and "outlying village" of Galway city. [4] [5]From the mid-19th century, a number of tourist facilities were built in the area, with Salthill's promenade opening in 1856 and several hotels being developed from 1860 onwards.
Great Southern Hotels - privatised via trade sale. Some hotels are now Radisson Blu, others have been rebranded or closed. Bord Gais Energy - customer supply division of old Bord Gáis sold in trade sale to Centrica. Infrastructure division retained as state asset. Permanent TSB - partially re-floated after nationalisation to prevent bank failure.
Gorumna Island is mostly underlain by intrusive Devonian-aged Galway Granite that formed from crustal melting as a result of the Caledonian Orogeny in the late Silurian. Its southern tip also includes Ordovician -aged bedrock of sedimentary marine rocks and basalt .