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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 .
From west to east, the islands are: Inishmore (Árainn / Inis Mór), [a] which is the largest; Inishmaan (Inis Meáin), the second-largest; and Inisheer (Inis Oírr), the smallest. There are also several islets. The population of 1,347 (as of 2022) [1] primarily speak Irish, making the islands a part of the Gaeltacht.
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.
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]
Administratively it is part of the District Electoral Division of Ballynacally. Population in 1996 was 1 (unchanged since 1991). It was the only inhabited island in County Clare.
Cill Rónáin (Irish: meaning "Church of Ronan"), unofficially anglicized as Kilronan, [1] is the main settlement on Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands off the coast of County Galway in Ireland.
Inis Mór, Irish for "big island", may refer to: Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands; Deer Island, in the Shannon Estuary; Church Island, in Lough Gill
Church Island (official title, Inis Mór) is an island of 16.8 ha (42 acres) in the centre of Lough Gill. It is rumoured by locals that this island is the one referred to in W. B. Yeats' poem The Lake Isle of Inishfree. This is due to the fact that Inishfree island is too small to be inhabited and does not match the poet's description of the ...