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Knock, County Mayo. Knock (Irish: An Cnoc, meaning The Hill – but now more generally known in Irish as Cnoc Mhuire, "Hill of (the Virgin) Mary") [2] is a village in County Mayo, Ireland. Knock is also a civil parish in the ancient barony of Costello. It is notable as the location of Knock Shrine - a Marian shrine and place of pilgrimage.
Also known as "full Irish", "Irish fry" or "Ulster fry". Bricfeasta friochta. Rashers, sausages and eggs, often served with a variety of side dishes such as fried mushrooms, soda bread and puddings. Garlic cheese chips. Sceallóga le cáis agus gairleog [4] Chips with garlic mayonnaise and melted cheddar cheese. Goody.
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
The following table and map show the areas in Ireland, previously designated as Cities, Boroughs, or Towns in the Local Government Act 2001. Under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, Ireland had a two-tier system of local authorities. The first tier consisted of administrative counties and county boroughs.
Roundstone (Irish: Cloch na Rón, meaning 'seal's rock') is a village on the west coast of Ireland, in the Connemara region of County Galway. Lying opposite the island of Inishnee on Roundstone Bay, by road it is 76 kilometres (47 mi) northwest of Galway and 18 kilometres (11 mi) southeast of Clifden. [2] Known as a haven for people in the ...
The counties of Ireland (Irish: Contaetha na hÉireann) are historic administrative divisions of the island. They began as Norman structures, and as the powers exercised by the Cambro-Norman barons and the Old English nobility waned over time, new offices of political control came to be established at a county level.
Clew Bay (/ ˈkluː /; Irish: Cuan Mó) is a large ocean bay on the Atlantic coast of County Mayo, Ireland. It is roughly rectangular and has more than a hundred small islands on its landward side; Ireland's best example of sunken drumlins. The larger Clare Island guards the entrance of the bay.
Westport, County Mayo. Westport (Irish: Cathair na Mart, meaning 'the stone fort of the beeves', historically anglicised as Cahernamart) [2] is a town in County Mayo in Ireland. [3] It is at the south-east corner of Clew Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean on the west coast of Ireland. Westport is a tourist destination and scores highly for ...