Guides to Portumna
7 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.
Portumna Castle is the semi-fortified house Richard Burke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde, built between about 1610 and 1617 for 10,000 pounds by Lough…
Lough Derg, the Dagda's red eye, is the Shannon's largest lake and Ireland's third: 130 square kilometres, 36 metres deep, 38.6 km navigable from…
Portumna Abbey, 500 metres south of the town centre beside Portumna Castle on the shore of Lough Derg, began as a Cistercian chapel of Saints…
Joe Canning, born in Portumna on 11 October 1988, is regarded as one of the greatest hurlers ever: 14 seasons with Galway, five All-Stars, Hurler…
Three national secondary roads serve east and south Galway: the 52.5 km N65 from Borrisokane in Tipperary over Portumna bridge on the Shannon to…
Portumna GAA, founded in 1888 on the Galway and Tipperary border, played football first and hurling from 1910, won the county junior title in…
Ollie Canning, born in Ballinasloe on 9 July 1976 and raised in Portumna, played left corner-back for Galway from the 1996 championship for…