![]() ![]() The other islands are more primitive, but even on them many changes are being made, that it was not worth while to deal with in the text. ![]() Kilronan, the principal village on Aranmor, has been so much changed by the fishing industry, developed there by the Congested Districts Board, that it has now very little to distinguish it from any fishing village on the west coast of Ireland. They lie about thirty miles from Galway, up the centre of the bay, but they are not far from the cliffs of County Clare, on the south, or the corner of Connemara on the north. There are three islands, Aranmor, the north island, about nine miles long Inishmaan, the middle island, about three miles and a half across, and nearly round in form and the south island, Inishere-in Irish, east island-like the middle island but slightly smaller. The geography of the Aran Islands is verysimple, yet it may need a word to itself. ![]()
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