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On the most famous of the many now largely uninhabited islands of the south Connemara coast, can be found the ruins of a church and the bed (grave) of Saint Mac Dara, who is greatly honoured by the people of south Connacht....

Aran Island Ferries operate a daily service to the three Aran Islands in Galway Bay. The Aran Islands are steeped in history and are spectacularly beautiful. The ferry service operates from Rossaveal, a port 37 kilometres west of Galway city. This is the shortest crossing point to the islands. A coach service is provided from Galway city to Rossaveal....

Located in Galway Bay in the West of Ireland lie the Aran Islands. Islands so rich in culture, history and heritage they have to be seen to be believed.
The islands unique landscape is composed of limestone rock, big large boulders, considerable stretches of cliffs and very clean beaches. There are three islands in total: Inis Mór (big island), Inis Meáin (middle island) and Inis Oírr (eastern island). Gaelic is the native language spoken here.
It is the islands isolation tha...

It has a stong association with Saxon England, 17th Century France, 18th Century America. Inishbofin has a turbulent history, ringed with Celtic cliff forts, medieval harbour and a superb 17th century fort, dramatic cliffs, sea caves, seal colony, fin whales are occasionally seen offshore in the autumn. Meeting Points: Island House, Cleggan pier & New Pier, Inishbofin....

The historical seat of King Guaire, (King of Connaught during the 6th century) and principal seat of the Chiefs of Cineal Aogh, and "gateway of the Burren" Gort is a well planned market town, which was for a long period a garrison town. The modern town was designed by the Paine brothers in the 19th century at the instigation of Lord Gort.

The karstic landscape of the area has many distinctive features e.g. subterranean rivers, underground caves, swallow holes and turloughs. Gort has a...

When stately Buck Mulligan stepped out of the pages of Joyce's Ulysses he was a character immortalised in a great work, but the flesh and blood person who inspired that character was, himself, a Renaissance man of no mean achievement. Oliver St. John Gogarty was an accomplished surgeon, a poet praised by no less a person than Yeats, and a wit who held court in true Oscar Wilde fashion at his homes in Dublin and in his beloved retreats at Renvyle House and Heather Island in Connemara....

A focal point of the northern midlands where the provinces of Leinster, Ulster and Connaught all converge, Longford, where history and literature, tragedy and triumph are all woven together, takes its name from the ancient stronghold of the O'Farrell family (Long Fort - Fort of the O'Farrells).

Bordered to the West by the majestic River Shannon, Longford is a county of rolling plains and picturesque stretches of water. The highest pint of the county, Cairn Hill, is only 279 m high, bu...

Inis Meain, the middle island of the Aran Islands, with an area up to 900 hectares, is an island of great and rugged beauty, on which the traditional Aran life style prevails most noticeably.
Until recently it was possible to land on this island by curragh only, but now an air strip has been built which links it with the Galway mainland and the two other Aran Islands.
There is also a museum on the island with artifacts of fishing, farming and kitchen in traditional crafts; bus...

Shaped like a rough oval, Inis Oirr (Inisheer) is only 560ha in extent, less than 3km across, either way. It has two roads running roughly from north to south. O.S. Co-ordinates: 095500;099000 - 200400;203000....

This is the largest of the three Aran Islands with an area of 3092ha. It has the most impressive piece of antiquity in all Ireland -the great stone fort of Dun Aongus, on the edge of a cliff, which rises sheer from the sea, 91m below.

The main port is Kilronan. There is an air strip at Killeany, 2.5km south-east of Kilronan, which connects the Island with the mainland. O.S. Co-ordinates: 075-091;2055-213...