Gort Tourist Information

Gort Online.com is an Online Guide to the area of Gort and South Galway with some useful information and links.

Some interesting facts about Gort

• The poet William Butler Yeats renovated an old tower house near the village ("Thoor Ballylee")
• Some 40% of the residents of Gort are non-Irish
• Gort takes its name, Gort Inse Guaire, from gort (a meadow) and Guaire Aidhneach, the sixth century King of Connacht and patron of St. Colman Mac Duach

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