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Landmark Attractions In Aran Islands

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The Aran Islands or The Arans are a group of three islands located at the mouth of Galway Bay, on the west coast of Ireland, with a total area of about 46 km2 . They constitute the barony of Aran in County Galway, Ireland. From west to east the islands are: Inishmore , the largest; Inishmaan , the second-largest; and Inisheer , the smallest. The 1,200 inhabitants primarily speak Irish, the language used in local placenames. All islanders are also fluent in English. The islands belong to the Gaeltacht.
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  • 1. Plassey Wreck Inisheer
    MV Plassy, or Plassey, was a steam trawler launched in late 1940 and named HMT Juliet in 1941. She was renamed Peterjon and converted to a cargo vessel in 1947. She was acquired by the Limerick Steamship Company in 1951 and renamed Plassy. On 8 March 1960, while sailing through Galway Bay carrying a cargo of whiskey, stained glass and yarn, she was caught in a severe storm and ran onto Finnis Rock, Inisheer, Aran Islands. A group of local Islanders, the Inisheer Rocket Crew, rescued the entire crew from the stricken vessel using a breeches buoy — an event captured in a pictorial display at the National Maritime Museum in Dún Laoghaire. Several weeks later, a second storm washed the ship off the rock and drove her ashore on the island. The wreck still lies on the shoreline and is a touri...
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