Pointa
Pointa is a hamlet in County Galway, Connacht. Pointa is situated nearby to the locality Bonroecolidaun, as well as near the hamlet Keeraunbeg.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Templeinishmackauv Church and Barraderry Cemetery.
Templeinishmackauv Church
Ruins
Photo: Jonathan Wilkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Templeinishmackauv Church is a ruins.
Séipéal Mhic Dara
Church
Photo: Newbert12, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Séipéal Mhic Dara is a church, which is situated 2½ km north of Pointa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Carraroe and Rossaveel.
Carraroe
Photo: Carraroe1, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Carraroe is a tiny village which is nevertheless the largest settlement on the Carraroe / Cheathrú Rua Peninsula of Connemara in County Galway. It has a population of 725 people, and has one of the highest percentages of Irish speakers in the country, at 78%.
Rossaveel
Village
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rossaveal or Rossaveel is a Gaeltacht village and townland in the Connemara district of County Galway in the west of Ireland. It is the main ferry port for the Aran Islands in Galway Bay. Rossaveel is situated 5 km northeast of Pointa.
Ballynahown
Village
Photo: Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Baile na hAbhann, anglicised as Ballynahown, is a Gaeltacht village about 31 km west of Galway, Ireland, on the R336 regional road between Indreabhán and Casla. Ballynahown is situated 6 km east of Pointa.
Pointa
- Type: Hamlet
- Category: locality
- Location: County Galway, Connacht, West Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.24103° or 53° 14′ 28″ northLongitude
-9.58936° or 9° 35′ 22″ westElevation
6 metres (20 feet)Open location code
9C5G6CR6+C7OpenStreetMap ID
node 52219000OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
3312099
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In Other Languages
“Pointa” goes by many names.
- Irish: “Pointe”
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