Gorumna

Gorumna is an island on the southwest coast of County Galway in Ireland.

Geography

Gorumna is linked with the mainland through the Béal an Daingin Bridge. It consists of three individual islands in close proximity, Lettermullen, Teeranea, and Lettermore.

Gorumna is mostly underlain by intrusive Devonian-aged Galway Granite that formed from crustal melting as a result of the Caledonian Orogeny in the late Silurian. Its southern tip also includes Ordovician-aged bedrock of sedimentary marine rocks and basalt.

During the 1860s in South Boston, Massachusetts, Bríd Ní Mháille, an immigrant from the Gorumna village of Trá Bhán, composed the Irish-language Keening, Amhrán na Trá Bháine, which is about the drowning of her three brothers, whose currach was rammed and sunk while they were out at sea. Ní Mháille's lament for her brothers was first performed at a ceilidh in South Boston before being brought back to her native district in Connemara, where it continues to be passed down as both a work of oral poetry and as a very popular song among performers and fans of Irish traditional music.

The table below reports data on Gorumna Island's population taken from Discover the Islands of Ireland and the census of Ireland.