Turloughmore Explained

Turloughmore
Native Name:Irish: An Turlach Mór
Native Name Lang:ga
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Ireland
Pushpin Label Position:right
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Ireland
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Ireland
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Connacht
Subdivision Type3:County
Subdivision Name3:County Galway
Unit Pref:Metric
Population As Of:2022
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population:243
Population Density Km2:auto
Utc Offset1:+0
Timezone1 Dst:IST (WEST)
Utc Offset1 Dst:-1
Coordinates:53.3747°N -8.8647°W
Elevation M:26
Blank Name:Irish Grid Reference

Turloughmore (; [2]) is a village in County Galway, Ireland. The name means "the large lake," a notable feature of the area, together with the Clare River (Abhainn an Chláir). Turloughmore lies on the N63 national secondary road.

It is a small village consisting of two petrol stations, three pubs and the base of a bus service company. Turloughmore was designated as a census town by the Central Statistics Office for the first time in the 2016 census.[3] As of the 2022 census, it had a population of 243 people.[1]

The village was once known for the horse fair held there, and for the faction-fighting that occurred at the fair (see John Callaghan (Galway)). The village represents a long-established settlement with a medieval history, and is near the site of the Battle of Knockdoe (Irish Cath Chnoc Tua), a bloody conflict in 1504 between some of the most powerful magnates of the time.[4]

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  1. Web site: Profile 1 - Population Distribution and Movement F1015 - Population: Turloughmore, Co. Galway . . 21 July 2023.
  2. Web site: An Turlach Mór/Turloughmore . Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie) . 10 October 2021.
  3. Web site: Census of Population 2016 - Profile 2 Population Distribution and Movement . Central Statistics Office . cso.ie . 26 June 2021 . 26 new census towns were created for the 2016 Census [..including..] Turloughmore .
  4. Book: Annála Ríochta Éireann (Annals of the Four Masters) M1504.13, M1504.14 . UCC CELT, Corpus of Electronic Texts .