Glengad
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| official_name | Gleann an Ghad/Dún Ceartáin |
| other_name | Glengad/Dooncarton |
| settlement_type | Village |
| image_skyline | Linear settlement Glengad Erris, Co. Mayo August 2010.jpg |
| image_caption | Glengad, overlooking Sruwaddacon Bay. |
| pushpin_map | Ireland |
| pushpin_label_position | none |
| pushpin_map_caption | Location in Ireland |
| subdivision_type | Country |
| subdivision_name | Ireland |
| subdivision_type1 | Province |
| subdivision_name1 | Connacht |
| subdivision_type3 | County |
| subdivision_name3 | County Mayo |
| unit_pref | Metric |
| population_as_of | 2002 |
| population_density_km2 | auto |
| coordinates | |
| blank_name | Irish Grid Reference |
| blank_info | |
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Glengad () is a Gaeltacht village in the parish of Kilcommon in northwest County Mayo, Ireland. It is also known as Dooncarton (), a name which comes from an Iron Age tribal chieftain called Ciortan, a character who appears in the Ulster Cycle legend of the Táin Bó Flidhais.
The village which is largely linear and without a main street, lies to the northwest and northeast of Dooncarton Hill in the parish of Kilcommon in Erris. The different areas of Glengad are known under different names. Glengad East is known as Baile Grainne. Middle Glengad was known as Spleckstown and Baile Lecan. West Glengad or Old Glengad was and still is known as Sean Bhaile. Every house in the village looks over Shruth Fhada Con meaning Long hound bay but which is commonly called Sruwaddacon Bay or Broadhaven Bay below.
It has a proliferation of prehistoric archaeology including several megalithic tombs of differing types including wedge, court and portal dolmens, and a well preserved stone circle in Baile Lecan. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Glengadview.jpg" caption="Dooncarton mountain in Glengad."] ::
Much of Glengad is a Special Area of Conservation and Sruwaddacon Bay is both an S.A.C. and a S.P.A (Birds Directive) – Special Protected Area for Birds. It is also an E.U. protected N.H.A. (Natural Heritage Area) In May and June the air is filled with the songs of the sky larks hovering so high in the sky that they are almost invisible. Goldcrests abound in winter. Unfortunately for the local sand martins whose nest holes were in the cliffs at Glengad Beach, Royal Dutch Shell sent in their diggers and removed the cliffs, placing nets to stop the birds returning. The 'new' temporary cliffs they rebuilt mechanically don't seem to hold the same appeal for the species. Caubeen Mountain (Dooncarton) sweeps down to Broadhaven Bay and Sruwaddacon Estuary and has some of the most spectacular and scenic views to be found in the county if not the entire country.
Glengad is the proposed landfall site for the contentious pipeline from the Corrib gas field, and is the ongoing scene of protests against the project.
Major landslide area
A major landslide consisting of 40 separate landslides hit the Glengad area on 19 September 2003. The previous recorded landslide in the parish was in 1937.
The Geological Survey of Ireland produced a report on reasons for the major landslide.
References
Sources
- Nolan, R. Within the Mullet (1997) Longford
- Noone, Fr. Sean, Where the Sun Sets (1997) Pollathomas
- Stonepages
- Westropp, T. J. Promontory Forts of Erris (1912) Dublin
References
- "Dún Ceartáin nó Gleann an Ghad". Placenames Database of Ireland.
- "County Mayo SACs". [[Mayo County Council]].
- "County Mayo SPAs". [[Mayo County Council]].
- "County Mayo NHAs". [[Mayo County Council]].
- "County Mayo SACs. NHAs, and SPAs". [[Mayo County Council]].
- McGinley, Hugh. (September 2003). "Flooding in the Glengad Region of County Mayo. 19-20 September 2003".
- Creighton. (October 2003). "Geological Report on the Pollatomish Landslide Area, Co. Mayo".
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