Port Omna

Portumna derives from Irish Port Omna, meaning 'the landing place of the oak,' a name reflecting its strategic position at a narrowing of the River Shannon where it flows into Lough Derg. The town sits in the Lickmolassy civil parish within the Longford barony of County Galway, on the border with Tipperary. The de Burgo (Burke) family established control of Portumna around 1226 when Henry III ...