Gort
Gort is a town in County Galway in the west of Ireland, with a population of 2900 in 2022. It's in low-lying farming country but is at the edge of the bare limestone plateau of the Burren.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Gort and Coole Park.
Gort
Railway station
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Gort railway station is a railway station that serves the town of Gort in County Galway, Ireland.
Coole Park
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Coole Park is a nature reserve of approximately 1,000 acres located a few miles west of Gort, County Galway, Ireland. It is managed by the Irish National Parks & Wildlife Service, part of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. Coole Park is situated 3 km north of Gort.
Kiltartan Castle
Ruins
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Kiltartan Castle is a tower house and National Monument located in County Galway, Ireland. Kiltartan Castle is situated 2½ km north of Gort.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shanaglish and Boston.
Shanaglish
Village
Shanaglish is a village in the parish of Beagh in the south of County Galway, Ireland, close to the border with County Clare. The name Shanaglish comes from the Gaelic 'Sean Eaglais', meaning 'old church'. Shanaglish is situated 6 km south of Gort.
Boston
Locality
Boston is a village in north County Clare, Ireland. It is situated near Lough Bunny, off the R460 road from Corofin to Gort, at the northeastern edge of the Burren National Park, and close to the border with County Galway. Boston is situated 8 km southwest of Gort.
Tubber
Hamlet
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Tubber is a village in the north of County Clare, Ireland. Tubber is situated 10 km southwest of Gort.
Gort
- Type: Town with 2,870 residents
- Description: town in County Galway, Ireland
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: County Galway, Connacht, West Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.06699° or 53° 4′ 1″ northLongitude
-8.81952° or 8° 49′ 10″ westPopulation
2,870Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)United Nations Location Code
IE GOTOpen location code
9C5H358J+Q5OpenStreetMap ID
node 52219822OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Gort” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Gort”
- Bulgarian: “Горт”
- Catalan: “Gort”
- Cebuano: “Gort”
- Chinese: “古特”
- Chinese: “戈特”
- Dutch: “Gort”
- French: “Gort”
- Georgian: “გორტი (ირლანდია)”
- Georgian: “გორტი”
- German: “Gort”
- Hebrew: “גורט”
- Irish: “An Gort”
- Irish: “Gort Inse Guaire”
- Italian: “Gort”
- Japanese: “ゴート (アイルランド)”
- Japanese: “ゴート”
- Lithuanian: “Gortas”
- Polish: “Gort”
- Portuguese: “Gort”
- Russian: “Ан-Горт”
- Russian: “Горт (Ирландия)”
- Russian: “Горт”
- Spanish: “Gort (Galway)”
- Spanish: “Gort”
- Swedish: “Gort”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Gort”. Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.