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The Cashel Village Enhancement Group, which is part of the Cashel Women’s Group based on Achill Island, is launching a petition to ask Mayo County Council and the Department of Transport to evaluate three bridges located in the village on the R319.

Number 33 Caiseal Cam is a spacious owner occupied home situated in this highly desirable O’Malley-built development. The property is larger than similar homes within the development and benefits from four bedrooms, three of which are double bedrooms and two of which have en suites.

In 1851, the Mayo Gaeltacht stretched west across the county from a line between Kilasser and Ballindine, excluding the town of Ballina. The official census figures for that year record that 65.8 per cent of the county’s population could speak the Irish language. By 1926, that figure had plummeted to 36.8 per cent and today, 47.2 per cent of the Mayo population claim the ability to speak the language, though to vastly different standards. Statistics for where the language is living and in everyday use are more important and telling. In that regard, the Mayo Gaeltacht is now confined to the Erris region, the eastern half of Achill Island, the Corraun Peninsula and a pocket around Tourmakeady on the western shore of Lough Mask.