Gorumna

Gorumna

Native name: Garmna
Droim Quay at south end of Gorumna
Gorumna
Geography
Location	Atlantic Ocean
Coordinates	53°15′N 9°41′W / 53.25°N 9.68°W / 53.25; -9.68
Administration
Ireland
Province	Connacht
County	Galway
Demographics
Population	1,044 (2022[1])

Gorumna island church

Gorumna (Irish: Garmna) is an island on the southwest coast of County Galway in Ireland.

Geography

Gorumna is linked with the mainland through the Béal an Daingin Bridge. It consists of three individual islands in close proximity, Lettermullen, Teeranea (Irish: Tír an Fhia), and Lettermore.^[2]

Geology

Gorumna is mostly underlain by intrusive Devonian-aged Galway Granite that formed from crustal melting as a result of the Caledonian Orogeny in the late Silurian. Its southern tip also includes Ordovician-aged bedrock of sedimentary marine rocks and basalt.^{[3][page needed]}

Music

During the 1860s in South Boston, Massachusetts, Bríd Ní Mháille, an immigrant from the Gorumna village of Trá Bhán, composed the Irish-language caoine, Amhrán na Trá Bháine, which is about the drowning of her three brothers, whose currach was rammed and sunk while they were out at sea. Ní Mháille's lament for her brothers was first performed at a céilí in South Boston before being brought back to her native district in Connemara, where it continues to be passed down as both a work of oral poetry and as a very popular song among performers and fans of Irish traditional music.^[4]

Population

The table below reports data on Gorumna Island's population taken from Discover the Islands of Ireland (Alex Ritsema, Collins Press, 1999) and the census of Ireland.

Historical population
Year Pop. ±% 1841 1,910 —     1851 1,064 −44.3% 1861 1,109 +4.2% 1871 1,417 +27.8% 1881 1,798 +26.9% 1891 1,706 −5.1% 1901 1,620 −5.0% 1911 1,540 −4.9% 1926 1,451 −5.8%	Year Pop. ±% 1936 1,363 −6.1% 1946 1,418 +4.0% 1951 1,440 +1.6% 1956 1,412 −1.9% 1961 1,334 −5.5% 1966 1,211 −9.2% 1971 1,108 −8.5% 1979 1,122 +1.3% 1981 1,120 −0.2%	Year Pop. ±% 1986 1,080 −3.6% 1991 1,082 +0.2% 1996 1,057 −2.3% 2002 1,015 −4.0% 2006 1,010 −0.5% 2011 1,055 +4.5% 2016 1,019 −3.4% 2022 1,044 +2.5%
Source: Central Statistics Office. "CNA17: Population by Off Shore Island, Sex and Year". CSO.ie. Retrieved 12 October 2016.

References

1. Population of Inhabited Islands Off the Coast (Report). Central Statistics Office. 2023. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
2. "Gorumna Island". Mapcarta. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
3. Holland, Charles Hepworth; Sanders, Ian. (2009). The Geology of Ireland. Dunedin Academic. ISBN 978-1-903544-49-5. OCLC 679356088.
4. Cartlanna Seosaimh Uí Éanaí: Curachaí na Trá Báine.

• Islands - Change in Population 1841 - 2011

External links

• Media related to Gorumna Island at Wikimedia Commons

• Islands portal
• Ireland portal