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Oldthort or Oultort () is a
townland A townland ( ga, baile fearainn; Ulster-Scots: ''toonlann'') is a small geographical division of land, historically and currently used in Ireland and in the Western Isles in Scotland, typically covering . The townland system is of Gaelic orig ...
near
Portumna Portumna ( - meaning 'the landing place of the oak') is a market town in the south-east of County Galway, Ireland, on the border with and linked by a bridge to County Tipperary. The town is located to the west of the point where the River Shann ...
, County Galway,
Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
, mainly along the Tynagh Road. Oultort townland has an area of , and had a population of 70 people as of the 2011 census.


Further reading

*''Lickmolassy by the Shannon: A History of Gortanumera and Surrounding Parishes'' by John Joe Conwell (1998)


References

Townlands of County Galway {{Galway-geo-stub