An Mám (anglicized as Maum, or sometimes Maam) is a small Gaeltacht village and its surrounding lands in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland.
Name
An Mám is Irish for "mountain pass" and as this is a Gaeltacht (principally Irish-speaking) area, the area's name formally exists only in Irish. Use of the English name is still common however.
Location and access
The village is located at the southern end of the Maam Valley, where it comes to Lough Corrib; the other end lies at Leenaun on Killary Harbour. The settlement lies between where Joyce's River is captured by the larger Bealnabrack River, and where the Failmore River joins that river's mouth at the northern end of the lake. It sits at the edge of a mountainous area, the principal part of which forms the Maumturk or Maamturk Mountains.
Features
Historically there was a castle in the area, and from the 19th century until 2004, a small courthouse existed in the village. and this later became the Maum Hotel, owned by the family of Lord Leitrim for many years;