Guides to Gort
11 articles, each about one thing people ask: a station, a square, a beach, a festival, a castle. Every one is written from a named source in this site’s own words, and every place it mentions is pinned on the model.
Coole Park is a 1,000-acre nature reserve west of Gort: Lady Gregory's estate, where Yeats wrote The Wild Swans at Coole and the great figures of…
Thoor Ballylee is the 15th-century de Burgo tower house near Gort that W. B. Yeats bought in 1916 or 1917 and lived in: four rooms one above the…
Gort station opened in 1869, closed in 1976 and reopened in March 2010 as part of the Western Rail Corridor between Ennis and Athenry, after a…
Kilmacduagh, 5 km from Gort, is the ruined monastery St Colman founded in the 7th century on land from King Guaire: a cathedral, five more…
Lough Cutra Castle, 3 km south of Gort, was designed by John Nash for Colonel Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort, built from 1811 to 1817, later…
Kiltartan, Cill Tartan, is the barony and civil parish around Gort named for the Burkes' ruined Kiltartan Castle: its south was O'Shaughnessy's…
Augusta Persse, Lady Gregory, born at Roxborough between Gort and Loughrea on 15 March 1852, married Sir William Gregory of Coole, met Yeats at…
The M18 is the Limerick to Galway motorway of the Atlantic Corridor: the Crusheen to Gort section of 22 km opened on 12 November 2010 after work…
South Galway plays hurling: Gort, formed about 1900, seven county titles from 1914 to 2014 and an All-Ireland final in 1984; Ardrahan, founded…
Gort Community School, Pobalscoil Ghort Inse Guaire, founded in 1995, had over 1,000 pupils in 2025 under principal Brian Crossan: the Noone…
Colman mac Duagh, born about 560 at Corker in Kiltartan, son of the chieftain Duac and Queen Rhinagh, and died on 29 October 632, was educated at…