Caltra
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|image_caption = Caltra, County Galway
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Caltra ({{irish place name|An Chealtrach}} or Cealtrach na Pailíse meaning "burial-ground of the palisade"){{cite book | title = The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places | last = Joyce | first = P.W. | authorlink = Patrick Weston Joyce | publisher = Longmans, Green | place = London | date = 1910}}{{cite web|url = https://www.logainm.ie/1413459.aspx | publisher = Placenames Database of Ireland | website = logainm.ie | title = An Chealtrach / Caltra | accessdate = 7 November 2022 }} is a townland and village on the R358 regional road in County Galway, Ireland. As of the 2011 census, the townland of Caltra had a population of 115 people.{{cite web|url = https://data.gov.ie/dataset/cd155-galway-population-by-private-households-occupied-and-vacancy-rate?package_type=dataset | publisher = Central Statistics Office | website = data.gov.ie | title = CD155 - Galway Population by Private Households, Occupied and Vacancy Rate | accessdate = 7 November 2022 | quote = Caltra, Caltra, Co. Galway [..] 115}}
History
Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of ringfort, fosse and enclosure sites in the townlands of Caltra, Lisnagree and Lislea.{{cite book | title = Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway | editor1 = Alcock, Olive | editor2 = De hÓra, Kathy | editor3 = Gosling, Paul | place = Dublin | publisher = Government Stationery Office | date = 1999}} The Roman Catholic church in the village is dedicated to Saint Solan.{{cite web|url = https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/30406004/saint-solans-church-caltra-caltra-galway| website = buildingsofireland.ie | publisher = National Inventory of Architectural Heritage | title = Saint Solan's Church, Caltra, Caltra, Galway | accessdate = 7 November 2022 }} It was built {{circa|1840}} on the site of an earlier friary, and extended in the late 1930s by W.H. Byrne & Sons architects.
Sport
The local Gaelic football club, Caltra GAA, won the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship for the 2003–04 season.{{cite web|url = https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-30138686.html| publisher = Irish Examiner | website = irishexaminer.com | title = Caltra edge out An Ghaeltacht in final | date = 17 March 2004 | accessdate = 7 November 2022 }}
People
- Eamon Gilmore, born in Caltra, is a former leader of the Labour Party.{{cite web|url = https://connachttribune.ie/tanaiste-eamon-gilmore-honoured-at-caltra-reception/| publisher = Connacht Tribune | website = connachttribune.ie | title = Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore Honoured At Caltra Reception | date = 22 May 2013 | accessdate = 7 November 2022 }}
- Michael Meehan, inter-county footballer for Galway.{{cite web|url = https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/michael-meehan-retires-from-intercounty-football-1.3334248 | publisher = Irish Times | website = irishtimes.com | title = Michael Meehan retires from intercounty football | date = 20 December 2017 | accessdate = 7 November 2022 }}