About Connacht:

Connacht (Irish: Connachta meaning "(land of the descendants of Conn", (is the western province of Ireland, comprising of Counties Galway (Aran Islands and Galway City), Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo.

In Irish the province is usually Cúige Chonnacht i.e. the province of Connacht. Its main urban centres are Galway in the south, and Sligo in the north. It has a population of 503,083, the smallest of the four Irish provinces. The Irish language is spoken in the Gaeltacht areas of west Mayo and west Galway, the largest being Connemara.

For more information about Connacht visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connacht