Snámh Bó

Snámh Bó (Snauvbo) derives its name from the practice of putting cattle to graze on an island in Galway Bay and swimming them across the water to reach it—a vivid geographical descriptor recorded by John O'Donovan during the Ordnance Survey documentation of 1830–1840. The townland occupies 456 acres in the civil parish of Kilcummin, within the Barony of Moycullen in western County Galway, posit...