Gorumna
Gorumna (Irish: Garmna) is an island on the west coast of Ireland, forming part of County Galway.
| Native name: Garmna | |
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_island_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1249945.jpg) Droim Quay at south end of Garmna | |
  Gorumna | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Atlantic Ocean |
| Coordinates | 53.25°N 9.68°W |
| Administration | |
| Province | Connacht |
| County | Galway |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 1055 (2011) |
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Garmna island church
Geography
Gorumna Island is linked with the mainland through the Béal an Daingin Bridge. Gorumna properly consists of three individual islands in close proximity, Lettermullen, Teeranea (Irish: Tír an Fhia) and Lettermore.[1]
Geology
Gorumna Island 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. It's southern tip also includes Ordovician-aged bedrock of sedimentary marine rocks and basalt.[2]
Demographics
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.
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| Source: Central Statistics Office. "CNA17: Population by Off Shore Island, Sex and Year". CSO.ie. Retrieved 12 October 2016. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
- "Gorumna Island". Mapcarta. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
- Holland, C. H. (Charles Hepworth) Sanders, Ian. (2009). The geology of Ireland. Dunedin Academic. ISBN 978-1-903544-49-5. OCLC 679356088.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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