Barna (Bearna in Irish) is a coastal village on the R336 regional road in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. It has become a satellite village of Galway city. The village is Irish speaking and is therefore a constituent part of the regions of Ireland that make up the

Gaeltacht ( , , ) are the districts of Ireland, individually or collectively, where the Irish government recognises that the Irish language is the predominant vernacular, or language of the home. The ''Gaeltacht'' districts were first officially reco ...

. In 1976, a community development group called ''Comharchumann Bearna Teo'' was formed after five local men put up the purchase money for at ''Troscaigh Thiar'' to be used for community purposes and has succeeded in developing several recreational facilities. Bearna (Barna) - geograph

Irish language

There are 1,500 native Irish speakers in the Barna Electoral Division. According to the 2011 census, 24% of Bearna's locals use Irish as a daily language.

International links

Barna is twinned with

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club. Cormac Folan of Freeport in Barna represented Ireland in

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. Barna Golf Club, two miles north of the village, is a moorland 18-hole golf course.

Townlands of Barna

Most townlands are anglisations of the original Irish language names. * Forramoyle West (from ''Na Foraí Maola Thiar'') * Forramoyle East (from ''Na Foraí Maola Thoir'') * New Village (from ''An Baile Nua'') * Leaclea (from ''An Leac Liath'' meaning ‘the grey flagstone or slab’) * Seapoint (''Rinn na Mara'' in Irish) * Ahaglugger (from ''Ath an Ghlugair'') * Truskey West (from ''Troscaigh Thiar'') * Truskey East (from ''Troscaigh Thoir'') * Freeport (''An Chéibh'' in Irish) * Ballard West (from ''An Baile Ard Thiar'' meaning ‘the high village west’) * Ballard East (from ''An Baile Ard Thoir'' meaning ‘the high village east’) * Lenarevagh (from ''An Léana Riabhach'' meaning ‘the brindled or streaked grassland’) * Knockaunnacarragh (from ''An Cnocán Carrach'')

Notable people

Cormac Folan Cormac Folan (born 9 July 1983) is an Irish rower. He competed in the men's coxless four event at the 2008 Summer Olympics. From Barna in Connemara, County Galway, Folan rowed for NUI Galway The University of Galway ( ga, Ollscoil na Gaillim ...

(born 1983) -

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who competed in the men's coxless four event at the 2008 Summer Olympics * James Hickey (c. 1837 – c. 4 August 1885) - Fenian and Land Leaguer * Micheál Ó Droigheaín (1889-1964) –

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brigadier *

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(born 1981) - Journalist and Presenter on TV and radio, notable for her work with RTÉ,

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, and the Sunday Tribune amongst others.

References

External links

Irish language 2006 study (PDF)Parish website for Barna agus na bhForbacha
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