Guides to Kilronan
9 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.
The Aran Islands, Inishmore, Inishmaan and Inisheer, lie across the mouth of Galway Bay: 46 square kilometres of limestone, 1,347 Irish speakers,…
Dún Aonghasa is the great stone fort on the edge of a 100-metre cliff on Inishmore: four dry-stone walls, the first raised about 1100 BC and the…
Inishmore, Árainn, is the largest Aran island at 31 square kilometres with 820 people in 2016: limestone pavement continued from the Burren, Dún…
Inis Meáin, the middle island, has about 184 people, the fewest of the Arans, and is among the strongest holds of Irish tradition: Burren…
Inis Oírr, the eastern island, is the smallest of the Arans with 343 people in 2022, about 260 of them daily Irish speakers: Cnoc Raithní burial…
The Aran jumper, geansaí Árann, is the cream cable-knit sweater of the islands: undyed báinín wool, once unwashed so the lanolin kept it…
Teampall Bheanáin, Benan's church, is the roofless 11th-century oratory on the ridge above Cill Éinne near Kilronan, marking the monastery founded…
Two Inishmore writers: Liam O'Flaherty, born at Gort na gCapall on 28 August 1896, an Irish Guards soldier wounded in 1917, a founder of the…
Enda, Éanna, a warrior king of Oriel in Ulster converted by his sister the abbess Fanchea, learned the monastic life at Rosnat in Britain and…