Caltra, County Galway
The history of Caltra
Forts, the church of 1840, the All-Ireland of 2004. 4 moments, in order.
- Early times
Forts and fosses
Ringforts, fosses and enclosures lie in the townlands of Caltra, Lisnagree and Lislea.
- About 1840
St Solan's
The Catholic church was built on the site of an earlier friary, and extended in the late 1930s by W. H. Byrne and Sons.
- 2004
All-Ireland champions
Caltra GAA won the All-Ireland senior club football championship of 2003 to 2004.
- 2011
115 people
The census count for the townland; Eamon Gilmore, later leader of the Labour Party, and the Galway footballer Michael Meehan are from the village.
Where this comes from
Every paragraph above summarises a statement in Wikipedia, "Caltra", licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, as it read on 2026-09-19. Follow it for the footnotes. Nothing has been added from memory.