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Irishtown · Co. Mayo

Where Ancient Bards Sparked Ireland's Greatest Agricultural Revolution

The powerful etymology of Irishtown (An Baile Gaelach - pronounced "on BALL-ya GAY-lakh") preserves in its Gaelic meaning "the Irish town" the deliberate territorial distinction that separated native Irish settlements from English colonial towns throughout medieval and early m…

Irishtown is a small place in County Mayo. We're still writing the proper hub for it — pubs, food, walks, the things to skip — and it'll appear here when it does.