Tuam (Tuaim, "Burial-Place") lies to the east of Lough Corrib on the N17, in the west of Ireland. It is a thriving little market town with some industry, including a sugar factory, and is a good center for fishing.
Tuam was a place of great ecclesiastical importance from an early period. The town's first and second Protestant archbishops were
associated with the production of the first Irish translation of the New Testament in 1602. It is now the see of a Roman Catholic archbishop and a bishop of the Church of Ireland.