Westport

Westport is a metropolis in County Mayo in Ireland. It is on the south-east corner of Clew Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean at the west coast of Ireland. Westport is a famous tourist vacation spot and rankings highly for exceptional of existence. It gained the Irish Tidy Towns Competition 3 times in 2001, 2006 and 2008. In 2012 it received the Best Place to Live in Ireland opposition run with the aid of The Irish Times. Westport originates and receives its call, in Irish, from a 16th-century fortress - Cathair na Mart which means the stone fort of the beeves or the city of the festivals and surrounding agreement, belonging to the powerful nearby seafaring O Maille extended family, who controlled the Clew Bay location, then known as Umaill.

The authentic village of Cathair na Mart existed someplace round what's now the the front garden of Westport House. It had a excessive street, alleys down to the river and a population of round 700. A small port also existed at the mouth of the Carrowbeg River. Roads lead from the village to the west, the south Sandy Hill Road and the east Old Paddock Road. The town became moved to its gift website online within the 1780s through the Browne family of Westport House to make manner for their gardens and turned into renamed Westport.