Spiddal
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Spiddal
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| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Connacht |
| County | County Galway |
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Spiddal, also known as Spiddle (Irish and official name: Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "IPA"., meaning 'the hospital'),[3] is a village on the shore of Galway Bay in County Galway, Ireland. It is 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of Galway city, on the R336 road.[4] It is just east of the county's Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking area) which is in the Connemara region.
According to the 2022 census, approximately 75% of the population are Irish-speaking and, of these, approximately 40% speak Irish on a daily basis outside the education system.[1] Spiddal is a centre for tourism with a beach, harbour, and shore fishing. The village is part of the civil parish of Moycullen.
Name
The name of the village in Irish, Script error: No such module "Lang"., derives from the word Script error: No such module "Lang"., which in turn derived from the Insular French, or Anglo-Normand, word Script error: No such module "Lang"..[5]
The name originates from a mediaeval leper hospital situated in Script error: No such module "Lang". (West Spiddal). A number of other hospital facilities were based in the area over the years, including a famine hospital during the Great Famine of the mid-1840s. While "Spiddle" is recorded in the Placenames Database of Ireland as the English variant of the name, "Spiddal" is used locally.[6]
History
Spiddal, like much of the west of Ireland, suffered greatly during the Great Famine of the 1840s, with many people being evicted, and many starving. Appeals were made by the parish priest John O'Grady and by A.W. Blake and, as a result, the Board of Works employed some men in improvements to the village harbour.[7]
From 1848, the evangelical Protestant Irish Church Missions were active, establishing the Connemara Orphan's Nursery (Spiddal Orphanage or Script error: No such module "Lang".) in the early 1850s,[8][9] the home could accommodate up to 90 boys and girls, and became affiliated with the Protestant-run Smyly Homes (and was even referred to as The Bird's Nest, the name of the home in Dublin).[10] Following its closure as an orphanage, it became a secondary school for girls run by the Catholic Sisters of Mercy.
The local Catholic church, Script error: No such module "Lang". (church of Saint Enda), was built in 1904.[4][11] The ruin of an older chapel, dating to 1776, is nearby.[12]
Amenities
There are a number of pubs, shops and other services in the village.[4] Spiddal's Garda (police) station is on Mountain Road.[13][14] Script error: No such module "Lang". ("the workshop" in Irish) is a craft centre east of the village where craft works are made and sold.
There is a primary school (Script error: No such module "Lang".) and secondary school (Script error: No such module "Lang".).[4]
The area is served by Bus Éireann route 424 from Galway City.[15] The Boluisce River flows south from Boluisce Lake and enters Galway Bay at Spiddal.[16]
Culture and sport
Each summer, groups of Irish teenagers visit Spiddal for three-week Irish language courses. Script error: No such module "Lang". and Script error: No such module "Lang". are two Irish language summer schools. American students visit for the autumn term each year to study Irish-language literature and culture.[citation needed]
Live traditional Irish music is regularly performed in the village's pubs.[citation needed] The music group The Waterboys recorded part of their Fisherman's Blues album in Spiddal.[17] They also recorded a song called Spring Comes to Spiddal on their album Room to Roam. The television series Script error: No such module "Lang". is filmed there, and broadcast on TG4.[18]
The local Gaelic Athletic Association club is Script error: No such module "Lang"., with Gaelic football and hurling being the most popular sports. There is also a sailing club in the village.
Notable people
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- Mary Bergin, musician
- Ronan Browne, musician
- Thom McGinty, actor and stillness artist
- Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, journalist and the sixth president of the International Olympic Committee, had family connections to the area.[19]
- Máirtín Ó Cadhain, writer of modern literature in Irish, and author of the comic and modernist work Cré na Cille.[20]
- Dónall Ó Héalai, actor[citation needed]
- Seán Ó Neachtain, former Member of the European Parliament and Fianna Fáil party politician[citation needed]
- Eimear Ní Chonaola, journalist and broadcast news presenter[citation needed]
- Máire Ní Thuathail (1957–2016), television producer.[21]
- Gráinne Seoige, television presenter[22]
- Síle Seoige, television presenter[23]
- Máirtín Thornton (died 1984), heavyweight boxer in the 1940s[24]
See also
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Census Mapping - Towns: An Spidéal - 2022 - Population Snapshot". Census 2022. Central Statistics Office. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."I.R. Uimh. 872/2004 -An tOrdú Logainmneacha (Ceantair Ghaeltachta) 2004". irishstatutebook.ie (in Irish). 2004.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."An Spidéal / Spiddle". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
- ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Volume 2 - Small Growth Villages - 12.1 An Spidéal Small Growth Village". Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028. Galway County Council. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."oispidéal". Wiktionary. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."An Spidéal". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Spiddal". www.oughterardheritage.org.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Protestant Missions in Connemara, Miriam Moffitt". www.connemaraheritage.org. 28 January 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."An unseemly brawl of god and scripture". Galway Advertiser. 13 November 2008.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Spiddal Orphan Home". childrenshomes.org.uk.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Cill Éinde, Spiddle West, An Spidéal [Spiddle], Galway". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Spiddle West, An Spidéal [Spiddle], Galway". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Spiddal Garda Station". vha.ie. Vincent Hannon Architects. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Planning permission sought for new Garda station in Spiddal". Galway Daily. 28 May 2021. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Bus Éireann announces improved services and timetables on Route 424, Galway to Leitir Mealláin via An Cheathrú Rua". transportforireland.ie. 7 December 2023. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Owenboliskey River". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 20 November 2011.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."On this day in 1988: The Waterboys release Fisherman's Blues". Hot Press. 17 October 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."An Spidéal: Stair agus Pobal". anspidéal.ie (in Gaeilge). Archived from the original on 5 June 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Lord Killanin:the Renaissance man of the Olympic movement". History Ireland. Vol. 20, no. 4. July 2012. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ó Cadhain, Máirtín". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Royal Irish Academy. October 2009. doi:10.3318/dib.006285.v1. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Death of TV producer and Tourmakeady native". mayonews.ie. 27 September 2016. Archived from the original on 28 September 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Culture That Made Me: Gráinne Seoige on dance music and Minority Report". Irish Examiner. 31 October 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Síle Seoige: I love the fact that I am nearly 43". Irish Examiner. 2 April 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Boxer Profile - Martin Thornton (Snr)". irishboxers.ie. Archived from the original on 31 July 2011.
External links
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- Website of Comhlacht Forbartha an Spidéil
- "Spiddle" in A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) by Samuel Lewis
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