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County Galway
Ireland
Villages
Onought
descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
1840's
Onaght Site Centered Town Map at Past Homes.com
ONOUGHT, a village, in the parish and island of ARRANMORE, barony of ARRAN, county of GALWAY, and province of CONNAUGHT: the population is returned with the parish.
It is situated
at the western extremity of the island, which is the principal of the group
called the Islands of Arran, at the entrance of the bay of Galway. The inhabitants
subsist chiefly by fishing. Near the village are the ruins of seven churches
and of a monastery of the Augustinian order.
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