AN SPIDÉAL (SPIDDLE)

 

Detached vernacular house/ Courtesy of National Inventory of Architectural Heritage

 

Freestanding former chapel/ Courtesy of National Inventory of Architectural Heritage

AN SPIDÉAL

An Spidéal (Gaeilge)

Spiddle also: Spiddal (English)

Historical description:

A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, by Samuel Lewis, 1837

http://www.libraryireland.com/Spiddle

SPIDDLE, or SPIDDAL, a village, in the parish and barony of MOYCULLEN, County of GALWAY, and province of CONNAUGHT, 9 miles (W.) from Galway, on the bay of Galway: the population is returned with the parish. Here is a pier, built by the Fishery Board, which is the only place of shelter for boats on this side of the bay.

In the R. C. divisions it is considered a parish, united with that of Minna, in which union are two small thatched chapels, one at Spiddal and the other at Minna.

LINKS

Place name:

http://www.logainm.ie

Genealogy:

Griffith’s Valuation Spiddle

Census Search 1841/1851 Spiddle

The Tithe Applotment Books Spiddle

History:

http://places.galwaylibrary.ie

http://www.duchas.ie

http://www.duchas.ie

http://www.duchas.ie/

Heritage:

http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/Spiddal

Social:

http://www.connemaraheritage.com

Tourism:

http://www.discoverireland.ie/Arts-Culture-Heritage

http://www.discoverireland.ie/Arts-Culture-Heritage