Tully ( ga, An Tulaigh, "the hill") is a small village on the
Renvyle Peninsula in north-west
Connemara
Connemara (; )( ga, Conamara ) is a region on the Atlantic coast of western County Galway, in the west of Ireland. The area has a strong association with traditional Irish culture and contains much of the Connacht Irish-speaking Gaeltacht, ...
,
County Galway,
Ireland
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. It is situated on the
Wild Atlantic Way
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coastal route.
Tully contains a
post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional ser ...
, a
hardware shop, a
supermarket, a
doctor's surgery
A doctor's office in American English, a doctor's surgery in British English, or a doctor's practice, is a medical facility in which one or more medical doctors, usually general practitioners (GP), receive and treat patients.
Description
Doc ...
, a
pharmacy, a
community centre
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, and a music house (Teach Ceoil),
as well as a
horse-riding centre. The village is a quarter of a mile from the sea and has views over the
Atlantic Ocean
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. The Twelve Pins
mountain range
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looms large over the area. The
Renvyle House Hotel, former home of poet
Oliver St. John Gogarty,
[ lies a mile to the west. Tully's sister village, Tully Cross, is a mile to the east. The nearest town is ]Clifden
Clifden (, meaning "stepping stones") is a coastal town in County Galway, Ireland, in the region of Connemara, located on the Owenglin River where it flows into Clifden Bay. As the largest town in the region, it is often referred to as "the Capi ...
, which is thirteen miles to the south.
In 1881 the landowner Caroline Blake
Caroline Blake born Caroline Johanna Burke (1835 – 23 February 1919) was an Irish landlord and hotelier. She became responsible for land and its tenants in County Galway. The Land League encouraged her tenents to not pay their rents and this red ...
was in dispute with her tenants. She believed that her tenants were exaggerating the famine caused by crop failure.[ The ]Land League
The Irish National Land League ( Irish: ''Conradh na Talún'') was an Irish political organisation of the late 19th century which sought to help poor tenant farmers. Its primary aim was to abolish landlordism in Ireland and enable tenant farme ...
were instructing the population to refuse to pay a full rent to the landlord and punishing any who did.[ She responded by having 109 people evicted from the village in September 1881. Over the next few years the rents charged were reduced by the Land Court and Grant's inclome was so reduced that she had to open Renvyle House as a hotel. She gained some sympathy in the press that a noblewoman had to resort to commercial enterprise.]
References
Towns and villages in County Galway
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