STRONG LANGUAGE THERE AMERGIN.ENQUIRER DID EXPRESS SOME DOUBT RE PORTLAND ? AND IN VIEW OF THIS COULD HARDLY BE EXPECTED TO PROVIDE LOCATION SPECIFICS ABOUT SOMETHING ON WHICH HE WAS FUNDEMENTALLY UNCERTAIN.THAT DOUBT IS EVEN MORE COMPOUNDED WHEN YOU TAKE ON BOARD THAT THE LOCAL ARCHIVAL RECORDS OF MARATIME NAVIGATION AND CONQUESTS STORED IN THE MUSEUM VAULTS OF PORTLAND CASTLE, PORTLAND,PORTUMNA ,CO GALWAY IRELAND, WHICH NOT ALONE AMPTLY DEMONSTRATE BUT ALSO IRREFUTABLY PROVE BEYOND ANY DOUBT THAT PORTLAND CO GALWAY IS THE MOTHER OF ALL SUBSEQUENT POOR IMITATORS AND DETRACTORS."THE SHAMBLES" ,IN HIS PROFOUND WISDOM AND POLITIC FORESIGHT , DID NOT MENTION THIS LOCATION OR FACT BECAUSE, NO MORE THAN MY-SELF HE COULD NOT BEAR TO SEE ALL OF THOSE FOURTH GENERATION IRISH/PORTLANDIANS FROM OREGON,MAINE,UK,& OZ RETURN TO THE SOIL OF THEIR FOREBEARERS JUST FOR A BIT OF THE OLD SOD.IF THAT WERE TO BE THE CASE THIS BEAUTEOUS GALWAY SHANNONSIDE VILLAGE WOULD BE FOREVER CALIFORNICATED. SO LETS KEEP IT OUR SECRET !!!TA GO MHAITH AGUS NI RAGHBHID GO HOLC