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Tuam

town in County Galway, Ireland
Place human_settlement Q996691

Facts

12 properties

Identity

Instance of
human settlement
Native label
Tuaim[8]

Location

Country
Ireland[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 53.517°, -8.850°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
County Galway[2]

Population and size

Area
+13.21[10]
Elevation above sea level
+44[9]
Population
+8200[5]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 8,200 GeoNames 9,647 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
More facts +4
Described by source
The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[6][7]
Historic county
County Galway[12]
Irish Grid Reference
M436521[11]
Twinned administrative body
Straubing[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en Tuam ar توام id Tuaim ja チュアム ko 퇌 ru Туам zh 图尔姆 zh 徒安 zh 蒂厄姆 zh-hant 圖爾姆
🔖 Identifiers · 17
VIAF cluster ID
154910218
GND ID
4662491-0
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Tuam High Street 2009 09 14.jpg ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Tuam
Freebase ID
/m/03t_vw
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1506039
GeoNames ID
2961099
Grove Art Online ID
T086455
Logainm ID
1411620
MusicBrainz area ID
4114d230-d55b-42d1-8857-e648cf269cdc
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007567615005171
OpenWeatherMap city ID
2961099
Show all 17 identifiers +5
SNARC ID
Wikidata item
Topic's main category
Category:Tuam
Who's on First ID
101804935
Wikishire article ID
Tuam
Yale LUX ID
place/73a66171-39cc-45c2-9392-a5c090071a54

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🔗 Connections
People born here 6
Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair, Catherine Corless, Mike Cooley, Rory Gaffney, Finian McGrath, Luke Dillon, 4th Baron Clonbrock
People who died here 5
John Birmingham, Iarlaithe mac Loga, Brión mac Echach Muigmedóin, George MacBeth, John MacHale
Described by source 2
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
← Headquarters location 2
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tuam, Libertas Ireland
Contained subdivisions 1
Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Country 1
Ireland
Historic county 1
County Galway
Instance of 1
human settlement
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
County Galway
Located in time zone 1
UTC±00:00
Topic's main category 1
Category:Tuam
Twinned administrative body 1
Straubing
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Tuam
← Twinned administrative body 1
Straubing
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Summary

Tuam is a human settlement[1].

Related Entities

Ireland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Placenames Database of Ireland. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 15w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/43210|batch #43210]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level (Q486972)"
  2. 20w ago · Hogweard · 2026-06-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → —
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 53.5167, 'lon': -8.85}
    Area → {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+13.21'}
    Located in time zone → —
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Wikishire article ID: Tuam"
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