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In modern Irish, the word for province is cúige (pl. cúigí). The modern Irish term derives from the Old Irish cóiced (pl. cóiceda) which literally meant "a fifth". [1] This term appears in 8th-century law texts such as Miadslechta and in the legendary tales of the Ulster Cycle where it refers to the five kingdoms of the "Pentarchy". [1]
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This is a list of the counties of Ireland ordered by area. ... Traditional province; 1 Cork: 7,508 [1] 77.8 Munster: 2 Galway: 6,151 [2] 45.1 Connacht: 3 Mayo: 5,588 ...
The counties of Ireland (Irish: Contaetha na hÉireann) are historic administrative divisions of the island.They began as Norman structures, and as the powers exercised by the Cambro-Norman barons and the Old English nobility waned over time, new offices of political control came to be established at a county level.
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Irish-speaking areas in County Mayo can be found in Iorras, Acaill and Tourmakeady. According to the 2016 census, Irish is spoken outside of the education system on a daily basis by 9,455 people in the Galway County Gaeltacht areas. [26] There are 202,667 Irish speakers in the province, over 84,000 in Galway and more than 55,000 in Mayo. [27]
Galway Bay (Irish: Loch Lurgain or Cuan na Gaillimhe) is a bay on the west coast of Ireland, between County Galway in the province of Connacht to the north and the Burren in County Clare in the province of Munster to the south; Galway city is on the northeast side. The bay is about 50 kilometres (30 mi) long and from 10 kilometres (6 mi) to 30 ...
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