Cashel (county of Galway)
See also: Cashel
Cashel ( Year Caiseal in Irish) is a Village Comté of Galway, in the province of the Connacht, in Irish Republic.
Cashel is located on the west coast of the island of Ireland, in the area of the Connemara; the village is to fifty km in the west of Galway and about fifteen km in the south-east of Clifden ().
History
The name Cashel comes from a circular extremely whose vestiges are on the slopes of a mountain being located approximately a kilometer at the North-East of the village.
In the west Toombeola Bridge is, at side of which one can see the vestiges of the Dominican Abbey , which was founded in 1427 by one of the members of the clan O' Flaherty, which controlled Connemara until the takeover by Jacques II of England.
Anecdote
In 1969, the Général de Gaulle spent two weeks in the Cashel House Hotel , luxury hotel located in the village, after its resignation of the presidency of France.
The current village
Cashel is a village rather isolated. Nevertheless it comprises a school, a pub acting as office of Poste and a church. It is served by lines 61 and 419 of the buses Éireann.
References
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