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Four Roads Turlough
The Four Roads Turlough (Irish language, Irish: Turlach Thigh Srathra) Special Area of Conservation (or SAC) is a Natura 2000 site based at the village of Four Roads, Ireland, close to Roscommon town, in County Roscommon, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The Four Roads Turlough is one of a number of seasonal lakes, or Turlough (lake), turloughs, found in the karst areas of Ireland, west of the River Shannon. Location The Four Roads Turlough SAC is located south-west of the village of Four Roads, Ireland, near to Roscommon town, the county town of County Roscommon. It is situated approximately 2.5 km from the River Suck, in the townlands of Carroward, Cloghan and Cloonlaughnan. The area of the site is noted as consisting of 100.18 hectares in the National Parks and Wildlife Service (Ireland), National Parks and Wildlife Service (or NPWS) in the Statutory Instrument for the site: S.I. No. 451/2017- European Union Habitats (Four Roads Turlough Special Area of Conservation 00163 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Language
Irish (Standard Irish: ), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic ( ), is a Celtic language of the Indo-European language family. It is a member of the Goidelic languages of the Insular Celtic sub branch of the family and is indigenous language, indigenous to the island of Ireland. It was the majority of the population's first language until the 19th century, when English (language), English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of the century, in what is sometimes characterised as a result of linguistic imperialism. Today, Irish is still commonly spoken as a first language in Ireland's Gaeltacht regions, in which 2% of Ireland's population lived in 2022. The total number of people (aged 3 and over) in Ireland who declared they could speak Irish in April 2022 was 1,873,997, representing 40% of respondents, but of these, 472,887 said they never spoke it and a further 551,993 said they only spoke it within the education system. Linguistic analyses o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
