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Séipéal Mhuire Gan Smál, on the outskirts of Tír an Fhia (Teeranea).

Gorumna (Irish: Garmna) is an island on the southwest coast of County Galway in Ireland.

Geography

Gorumna is accessible from Lettermore through the R374 road and the Carraig an Logáin bridge. Much like the rest of Connemara, Gorumna has a hilly, blanket bog-esque landscape, with large expanses of rocky terrain and an abundance of furze. The island bears multiple lakes, and several townlands.

This image shows the blanket bog landscape of Garmna (Gorumna Island). The sky is mostly clear, and there is a field of rocks stretching from the foreground and into the background. The rugged countryside road is barely visible in the bottom corner of the image.
The landscape of central Gorumna.

Geology

Gorumna is mostly underlain by intrusive Devonian-aged Galway Granite that formed from crustal melting as a result of the Caledonian Orogeny in the late Silurian. Its southern tip also includes Ordovician-aged bedrock of sedimentary marine rocks and basalt.[2][page needed]

Music

During the 1860s in South Boston, Massachusetts, Bríd Ní Mháille, an immigrant from the Gorumna village of Trá Bhán, composed the Irish-language caoine, Amhrán na Trá Bháine, which is about the drowning of her three brothers, whose currach was rammed and sunk while they were out at sea. Ní Mháille’s lament for her brothers was first performed at a céilí in South Boston before being brought back to her native district in Connemara, where it continues to be passed down as both a work of oral poetry and as a very popular song among performers and fans of Irish traditional music.[3]

Population

The table below reports data on Gorumna Island’s population taken from Discover the Islands of Ireland (Alex Ritsema, Collins Press, 1999) and the census of Ireland.

References

  1. ^ Population of Inhabited Islands Off the Coast (Report). Central Statistics Office. 2023. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  2. ^ Holland, Charles Hepworth; Sanders, Ian. (2009). The Geology of Ireland. Dunedin Academic. ISBN 978-1-903544-49-5. OCLC 679356088.
  3. ^ Cartlanna Seosaimh Uí Éanaí: Curachaí na Trá Báine.