Guides to Cleggan
4 articles, each about one thing people ask: a station, a square, a beach, a festival, a castle. Every one is written from a named source in this site’s own words, and every place it mentions is pinned on the model.
Inishbofin, the island of the white cow, lies 8 km off Cleggan: about 180 people, St Colmán's monastery of 665, Cromwell's barracks, a seal…
On 27 October 1927 a gale rose without warning on the mackerel boats off Cleggan and 45 fishermen drowned: sixteen from Rossadilisk, which was…
Inishark, Inis Airc, the small island west of Inishbofin, was emptied on 20 October 1960 when its last 23 people were moved to the mainland rather…
Cleggan, An Cloigeann, the headland, is the fishing village 10 km north-west of Clifden at the head of Cleggan Bay, built around the pier…