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The name "Inishmore" was "apparently concocted by the Ordnance Survey for its map of 1839" as an Anglicization of Inis Mór ('big island'), as there is no evidence of its use before then. [7] Because the island is in the Gaeltacht, Árainn is the only legal placename in Irish or English as declared in the Official Languages Act 2003.
The island of Inishmore hosted a Friends of Ted festival in 2007. The 1996 play The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh is set on the Aran Islands. The play is the first in the Aran Islands Trilogy, followed in 2001 by The Lieutenant of Inishmore, and the unpublished The Banshees of Inisheer.
Inishfree (Irish: Inis Fraoigh, transl. 'island of heather') refers to two small islands off the coast of County Donegal in the north of Ireland. Inishfree Upper is the larger of the two at around 0.6 square miles (1.6 km 2). [1] It is often known simply as "Inishfree".
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Dún Aonghasa (unofficial anglicised version Dun Aengus [2]) is the best-known of several prehistoric hill forts on the Aran Islands of County Galway, Ireland. It lies on Inis Mór, at the edge of a 100-metre-high (330 ft) cliff. [3] A popular tourist attraction, Dún Aonghasa is an important archaeological site.
Map of the Aran Islands. Inishmore Aerodrome (IATA: IOR, ICAO: EIIM) is located 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) southeast of Kilronan (Irish: Cill Rónáin), a town on the island of Inishmore (Irish: Inis Mór), one of the Aran Islands off the coast of County Galway in Ireland. [1]
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The Inishmore or Dún Árann Lighthouse, is a decommissioned lighthouse located on the highest point of Inishmore, the largest of the Aran Islands in County Galway, Ireland. It was the first of a series of lighthouses that were built in the 19th century on the Aran Islands, but it was poorly positioned and was eventually replaced by the ...