Connacht

Connacht (Erse: Cúige Chonnacht, meanin "stewartry o the descendants o Conn") is the wastren stewartry o Ireland, makkin ane o the fower stewartries. It conseests o five coonties, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon an Sligo. The main ceeties is Galway ceety an Sligo. It haes a population o 503,083 fowk, the smawest population o the fower stewartries.^{[citation needit]}

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Banner Coat airms
Coordinates: 54°N 9°W / 54; -9
State	Ireland
Counties	Galway Leitrim Mayo Roscommon Sligo
Govrenment
• Teachtaí Dála	6 Independent TDs 5 Fine Gael TDs 4 Fianna Fáil TDs 4 Sinn Féin TDs
• MEPs	2 Fine Gael MEPs 1 Sinn Féin MEP 1 Independent MEP
Area
• Total	17,711 km2 (6,838 sq mi)
Population  (2016)
• Total	550,742
Time zone	UTC±0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (IST)
Eircode routing keys	Stairtin wi F, H, N (mainly)
Telephone area codes	07x, 09x (primarily)
ISO 3166 code	IE-C
a. ^ Connacht is pairt o the Midlands–North-West constituency; the five Connacht coonties conteen 36.2% o the population o this constituency.

History

It haed lang been a proveencial kinrick whan the Normans invadit Ireland, an held oot agin the Normans mony times till in 1225 it wis hinderly invadit an the Burke faimly becam de facto rulers. Houaniver the ruling O'Conor faimly held the teetle King o Connacht till the late 17t century. In 1798, Connacht haed a short exeestence as the Republic o Connacht, wi the support o Fraunce.^{[citation needit]}

The Banner

The first record o the banner is on a cairt o Galway frae 1651. The banner leuks like the banner o Schottenkloster or Erse monastery in Regensburg, Bavarie. Hou that banner becam the banner o Connacht is unbekent.^{[citation needit]}

Erse leid

The Erse leid is spoken in the Gaeltacht in Mayo an Galway that represents a muckle pairt o the Erse leid speakers.^{[citation needit]}