Glengad is a Gaeltacht village in the parish of Kilcommon in northwest County Mayo, Ireland. It is also known as Dooncarton, a name which comes from an Iron Age tribal chieftain called Ciortan, a char
Glengad, overlooking Sruwaddacon Bay.
Dooncarton mountain in Glengad.
The Corrib gas controversy was a social protest campaign against the Corrib gas project in north-western County Mayo, Ireland. The project involves the processing of gas onshore through Broadhaven and
Glengad
…if not the entire country. Glengad is the proposed landfall site for the contentious pipeline from the Corrib gas field, and is the ongoing scene of protests against the project. A major landslide consisting of 40 separate landslides hit the Glengad area on 19 September 2003. The previous recorded landslide…
Anti-Shell mural near Glenamoy, 2008
The pipeline makes landfall at Glengad, County Mayo
Activist camp on the proposed pipeline route, February 2007
Confrontation between Gardaí and protesters, June 2007